Stop Believing in Free Shipping

Giacomo Bagnara It was a pair of feather earrings that helped Ann Miceli get out from underneath strangers’ cars. For years, Miceli had worked as an auto mechanic and picked up shifts in her spare time at Indianapolis restaurants. One day, she came across those earrings, and “it kind of sparked something.” Miceli bought a […]

How crowdsourcing shipping through technology will make last mile delivery cheaper (AMZN)

The proliferation of e-commerce has transformed free shipping and same-day delivery from perks to table stakes — and retailers are paying the price. With daily parcel volumes surging and customers increasingly unlikely to foot the bill, companies have been tasked with finding new ways to offer speedy shipments without eating costs. BI Intelligence Among the […]

33 gifts from Target for everyone on your list — plus free 2-day shipping on nearly everything

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Going to a different store for every item on your holiday shopping list can be a huge headache, so it’s important to start with stores that have a wide selection […]

Crowdsourced delivery explained: making same day shipping cheaper through local couriers

Retailers and their logistics partners have been pushed to meet growing customer demands for increasingly speedy shipping. And the steady rise of e-commerce has caused the daily volume of parcel shipments to skyrocket — two trends that, for the foreseeable future, are only going to continue. With fulfillment giants like Amazon constantly nipping at their […]

Shipping company’s networks in the Americas crippled by ransomware attack

(credit: COSCO) COSCO’s computer networks in the Americas remained completely severed from the Internet on Thursday, almost 48 hours after the Chinese shipping giant reported it was hit by a ransomware attack. In a statement published Thursday, COSCO officials said the failures affected networks in the US, Canada, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Uruguay. […]

The shipping industry is back – and it has big implications for the global economy

Reuters Shipping is extremely important to almost everything delivered to businesses and people all around the globe.  The shipping industry made a big mistake in 2011, but looks to be corrected that mistake. You may not realise it, but nearly everything from toys to power tools that you buy at Wal-Mart, Takashimaya (in Singapore), or […]

Musk: Shipping base-price Model 3 at this point would cause Tesla to lose money

Enlarge / Elon Musk, Chairman, CEO, Tesla. (credit: Getty Images) After announcing a $ 78,000, performance version of the Tesla Model 3 on Saturday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk again took to Twitter over the weekend to say that it may be months more before customers will be able to buy a base-price Model 3. […]

VR developers: Stop shipping glitchy, half-baked games

OPINION: On the 1-10 spectrum of “game developers should be able to sell completely broken demos” to “every game should be thoroughly vetted before release to earn the Nintendo seal of quality,” I’m somewhere in the middle. For years, I’ve hated how app stores and “games as a service” have cultivated …Read More

The Channel Islands – Top 10 things you never knew about the shipping hotspot

1. The islands had been deemed not defendable by the British in 1940. Some civilians were given the chance to evacuate to England but around 66,000 residents and some civil servants stayed. 2. Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies and are not part of the United Kingdom or EU… 3. …but they are within the […]

Hyperloop One and DP World launch a cargo-only shipping business

Virgin Hyperloop One and DP World have announced the launch of a new company that will push the technology into the cargo industry. DP World Cargospeed is a new project that will see the pair look to build Hyperloop-enabled cargo systems to transport “palletized cargo.” It’s not much of a departure from what Hyperloop One […]