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E-Commerce Returns Best Practices

E-commerce is growing at a tremendous pace, and outpacing traditional in the process. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce grew at an incredible 14% in 2014, while traditional retail only grew by 3.8%. By the end of this year, it’s expected that e-commerce is going to be a $1.5 trillion industry. But for online retailers, there’s a reason

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The Amazon Effect: Impacts On Shipping And Retail

When it was first founded in 1994, Amazon.com was operating out of founder Jeff Bezos’ garage and earning $20,000 per week in sales within two months. Twenty-one years later, Amazon has 154,100 full-time employees and earned nearly $90 billion in revenue in 2014; and they’re widely known as ‘The Everything Store’, especially with Amazon Marketplace enabling sellers

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The Costs And Benefits Of Custom Packaging For Ecommerce

Start-ups and ecommerce sites have plenty of places where they can invest their money. Advertising, adding staff, product development- the list goes on and on, and it’s easy to argue that custom packaging simply isn’t worth the cost (which can range from three cents for a plastic bag to thirty cents for a folding carton,

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