Ecommerce Industry News
UPS is encouraging customers to pick up their packages instead of having them delivered. It’s not surprising – residential delivery is more costly for shipping carriers (though they charge shippers a surcharge when they send […]
Amazon has added thousands of new locations for free package pickup nationwide. New partners include GNC, Health Mart and Stage Stores. Since its US launch in June 2019, Amazon Hub Counter has brought in tens […]
Over 100 Rite Aid stores opened Amazon Counters today, and that number will expand to over 1,500 by the end of the year. Amazon Counters allow customers to easily pickup their Amazon packages. Amazon plans […]
FedEx is leveraging Dollar General store locations as it pushes more aggressively into ecommerce. The shipping carrier announced on Monday it will add over 8,000 Dollar General stores to its network of package drop-off, return, […]
Amazon launched a new service in the UK and Italy called Counter, a “click & collect” option that allows buyers to pick up their orders from retail stores. Amazon is looking for partners of all […]
UPS is running a promotion that rewards shoppers for using package pickup, specifically, UPS Access Point locations. “Last mile delivery” to residential addresses is expensive and comes with challenges (porch package theft, apartment building deliveries). […]
Remember package lockers the USPS began testing in 2011 that allowed shoppers to have packages shipped to them for pickup as an alternative to home delivery? The Postal Service announced this week it’s expanding its […]
eBay kicked off a sweepstakes to encourage shoppers to use its Click & Collect service when purchasing items from sellers. Buyers who choose to pickup their eBay orders at a participating Argos department store instead […]
Amazon is expanding its package pickup delivery option in the UK. Shoppers can now pick up their Amazon orders at one of over 10,500 Post Office branches through the Royal Mail’s Local Collect, the UK’s […]
In the UK, eBay opted all sellers into its Click & Collect service, and signs are pointing to a similar program coming to the U.S. The marketplace platform told Reuters (link via Globe and Mail) […]