Recent Posts Tagged With 'free shipping'

• Flat shipping vs. free shipping at Land’s End

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 11:00 in free shipping, merchandising, lands end, email promotions, cost of gas, flat shipping

  In a Land’s End promotional email dated April 1, 2008, the subject line was “Last day! Fast Shipping for less than a gallon of gas”. One wishes it was an April Fool’s joke. The offer was $3 flat shipping on any order, no mini...

• Freebie Jeebies

  Posted on Tuesday June 24th, 2008 at 15:48 in free shipping, merchandising, upromise, retail developments, freeshipping.org

  I have been sounding the alarm that the cost of free shipping is going to cut deep into retailers margins as we enter the Back to School selling season and beyond. In the face of looming FedEx and UPS fuel surges, uh fuel surcharges, a new site buil...

• Rising Fuel Surcharge Likely to Jump 35% for Back To School Selling Season

  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 14:54 in logistics, free shipping, fedex, industry news, fulfillment, ups, back to school, fuel surcharge, diesel fuel costs

  With rising diesel fuel prices shippers can expect a fuel surcharge of between 10.5% and 11.0% for August, 2008....

• If the pie shrinks but the slice is bigger …Part III of III

  Posted on Sunday May 18th, 2008 at 08:00 in logistics, free shipping, fedex, ups, lands end, historic events, retail developments, rising fuel costs, shipping promotions

  In Part II we looked in detail at how FedEx’s fuel surcharge is constructed and adjusted. Wahoo! Now let’s take a look at the rise in shipping costs, last year to this year, for various package categories for FedEx and UPS. An exquisite...

• If the pie shrinks but the slice is bigger …Part II of III

  Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 16:35 in logistics, free shipping, industry news, historic events, diesel fuel costs, fedex fuel surcharge, freight costs

  In Part I we looked at the upward spiral in diesel fuel cost. Let’s take this a bit deeper, as the real news is in the details. In speaking with a good friend who runs 4 catalogs, he said, “I’m doing my 2008 mid-year projections....

• If the pie shrinks but the slice is bigger …Part I of III

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 21:58 in free shipping, trucking, industry news, historic events, diesel fuel, federal express, retail developments

  Reuters, May 9, 2008 “Fuel prices are killing FedEx FDX. The Memphis, Tenn., freight company cut its fourth-quarter earnings forecast, citing a 7% rise in fuel prices since it made its last projection back in March. FedEx said it now expects to...

• Lands’ End axes Free Shipping

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 16:36 in free shipping, usps, Earth Day, industry news, lands end, retail developments, green cataloging

  Well, it’s Earth Day and in celebration I will now list why the end of free shipping, at least the suspension of it for most of the coming months, has arrived: crude oil hit $119 a barrel with predictions that it will continue to $180 gas...

• Free Shipping – mission improbable?

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 15:16 in free shipping, fulfillment, retail developments, shipping costs, catalog success, mark del franco, paul miller

  I was struck the other day when I received the Lands End free shipping-no minimum order email promotion. No minimum? At the last cataloger I ran we offered free shipping, but only with an order threshold that made common sense. Offering free shipp...