Author name: Chad Crabtree

Digital gift card sales increase more than 100% in December

[ad_1] Digital gift cards sales increased throughout the pandemic and surged during the 2020 holiday season. The number of digital gift cards U.S. retailers sold in November 2020 increased 25.0% year over year and increased 106.1% year over year in December 2020, according to survey data from 1,528 U.S. retailers that use Rise.ai Inc.’s re-engagement

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Transportation Impact’s 4th Annual Polar Bear Plunge to Raise Funds for American Heart Association

[ad_1] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Danielle CrumpPhone: 252-424-8712Email: danielle.crump@transimpact.com Emerald Isle, N.C. (Feb. 1, 2021) — Transportation Impact is excited to announce its fourth annual Polar Bear Plunge benefiting the American Heart Association. In the event, one member of the TI leadership team will take a plunge into the freezing Atlantic. The “lucky” executive will

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3 Best Practices for Building A Strong Local Supply Chain

[ad_1] Supply chains in the US have been widely stretched around the globe for decades. Outsourcing and offshoring manufacturing has been a gold standard in the industry until 2020. Then, the pandemic happened, accompanied by many other economic and political factors like the US-China trade war and Brexit. Considering these factors, the time has come to shorten the supply chains. Many retailers and businesses in the US are trying to develop a better

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How Shippers Can Use Data to Make Returns Their Competitive Advantage

[ad_1] Returns are a cost of doing business for online retailers today, but do they have to be? For the answer, read our latest report on how small e-commerce sellers are turning returns into both an opportunity and competitive advantage. Read: How Shippers Can Use Data to Make Returns Their Competitive Advantage The post How

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What percentage of products on Amazon are sold by marketplace sellers?

[ad_1] !function(e,i,n,s){var t=”InfogramEmbeds”,d=e.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement(“script”);o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src=”https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js”,d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,”infogram-async”); Amazon.com Inc. continues to strengthen its dominance in U.S. ecommerce thanks in large part to its third-party marketplace sellers. Sales from Amazon’s marketplace account for roughly 60% of its total gross merchandise value, Digital Commerce 360 estimates. In Q4 2020, marketplace merchants accounted for 55% of units sold on Amazon.com,

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