This past holiday season, online retail spending in the U.S. reached a record $37.5 billion, up 15 percent from a year ago, according to comScore. For many online retailers, this significant growth led to record-breaking sales for their businesses, and along with it, a higher-than-expected number of orders that had to be fulfilled. Now that [...]

Today on Practical eCommerce, eFulfillment Service’s CEO, John Lindberg, weighs in on the pros and cons of outsourcing fulfillment. As Mr. Lindberg explains in the article, even though he owns a fulfillment company, there are situations in which he believes it does not make sense to outsource fulfillment. On the other hand, there are many [...]

As someone who doesn’t take a lot of joy in parking lots that have no parking, shopping aisles that you can’t walk down, and checkout lines that extend halfway to the back of the store, one way that I’ve been able to keep my blood pressure down during the holidays is by going online to [...]

eFulfillment Service Receives Award for Best eCommerce Fulfillment Provider eFulfillment Service (EFS) is proud to be named the “ultimate choice” for eCommerce order fulfillment by Web Hosting Search, a leading independent guide of the Web’s best and most trusted tools and services. eFulfillment Service has been awarded “Best Web Tool” for the company’s exceptional order [...]

The Impact of USPS Shut Down on Small Retailers In a few weeks, the United States Postal Service (USPS) may run out of money. The reason? Well, according to Postmaster General, Patrick R. Donahoe, the Internet is to blame. In his testimony prepared for a congressional hearing this week, Donahoe explains that “the way people [...]

How To Reduce Your Order Shipping & Fulfillment Costs If you’re an online retailer, you’ve probably noticed the new trend: Free Shipping! In fact, it seems like not a week goes by that we’re not hearing about another big retailer jumping on the free shipping bandwagon. This week it was Nordstrom, which is now offering [...]

As we talk to prospective clients, we often learn that they are considering Fulfillment by Amazon as a possible fulfillment partner.  We try to tactfully ask them if they see the possible “conflict of interest” of selling their products on a website that sells similar products and has all of their sales data to analyze? [...]

Here’s our President John Lindberg’s latest contribution to Practical Ecommerce, Ten Ways to Reduce Your Shipping Costs.

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