WHAT ELSE WE’RE CONSUMING | a year of headlines from our clients & brand partners
Here is a list of big moments for partner clients in 2020 - the mergers, announcements, new product launches, awards, honors, and shout outs! Wishing all past, present and future brand partners good fortune and much success in the year to come! This Is How Your...
2020 | A YEAR IN REVIEW: Madison Reed & the eCommerce Cosmetic Explosion
#DTC #HAIRCARE #OMNICHANNEL In the late spring, with Covid cases rising, ecommerce order volume surged. What ensued was a shipping season with numbers that rivaled holiday peaks. These numbers were intensified for supply chain pros hit by staffing issues related to...
2020 | A YEAR IN REVIEW: The Rent the Runway rental model made logistics look easy. Then, came COVID…
#LOGISTICS #APPAREL #RENTAL Fosdick Feature: The most Impressive thing about Rent the Runway might actually be logistics Logistics took on new meaning in 2020 as companies in retail, tech, eCommerce (or some amalgamation of all three spaces) worked to meet the...
2020 Year in Review: Retail Landscape Faces Seismic Shifts
FROM: What’s News, a WSJ Podcast: Dec. 28 edition. The past year brought highs and lows for the retail industry. The pandemic forced many stores to close their doors, some for good. Others tried to meet the challenges of the time by shifting focus to fill consumers'...
Fosdick once again an MCM Top 3PL for 2021
Fosdick Fulfillment is proud to have been named a Multichannel Merchant Top 3PL for 2021, joining dozens of other leading third-party logistics providers selected by Multichannel Merchant in its sixth annual directory. 3PLs have seen significant growth in 2020...
Apple’s ship from store, Staples holiday drop-off returns, and more GOOD retail in practice
In one of the most 2020 moves of the year, Apple has moved to rely on its network of almost 300 retail stores to ship items in stock direct to customers spread across the US and Canada. Apple says the shift will mean faster delivery times for a large majority of...
JUST FOR FUN: 200 year old restaurant Antoine’s gears up to face another challenge with COVID
Ever nostalgic and admirers of all things historic and lasting, at Fosdick this one hits especially close to home. Antoine's is the single most important establishment in New Orleans, and possibly beyond. The French Quarter landmark began as a boardinghouse opened in...
3 P’s for Mastering Delegation & Living a Mission of Wellness
Lots to unpack in this post from Thryve Inside CEO, Richard LIn. But primarily, the founder is reflecting on a series of conscious decisions enacted over this past year to not spread himself too thin and to delegate more. The impact of these efforts were felt...
TRENDING | October/November
How Amazon hid its safety crisis - REVEAL Let's get the negative Amazon content out of the way right off the bat. A new cache of company records obtained by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting – including internal safety reports and weekly injury...
INNOVATION | TECHNOLOGY: DoorDash Pre-IPO Reveals Company’s Plans for the Future
DoorDash released its IPO paperwork this past Friday, with an ask of nearly $400 million of investors. This would value the food delivery company at right around $16 billion. DoorDash was also able to boast its place as the #1 food deliverer in the US with 50% of the...
INNOVATION | TECHNOLOGY: Walmart enters the business of autonomous delivery
Walmart has entered into partnership with Cruise, a maker of electric, autonomous vehicles. The two companies say they will launch a robo-delivery service early next year in Scottsdale, AZ. Why Scottsdale, you ask? Well, it turns out the answer is more...
IN THE NUMBERS: Both a second wave of the COVID-19 virus and the peak holiday season have arrived. What that means for brands and supply chain pros alike.
As a result of the pandemic, consumer brands have seen tremendous increases in online shopping. Upward trends in eCommerce data began almost right away and continued over the summer. But these days, those numbers straddle a line between exciting and downright...
#TRENDING – SEPTEMBER
Amazon Ramps Up COVID Testing for Warehouse Worker Let’s start this month’s #trending content off with Amazon. First and foremost, the company plans to expand large-scale COVID testing program for warehouses. The e-commerce giant is now testing warehouse workers in at...
Third-Party Logistics & the Piecemeal Supply Chain: Helping Start-Up Brands Break Free of the Amazon Trap
At the end of August we wrote about the war between Amazon and seemingly everyone else in retail/supply chain services. Among the anti-Amazon rebel alliance are notable companies as Walmart, Target, Kroger, Best Buy, and Shopify (though CEO, Tobi Lutke rejects the...
IN THE NUMBERS: US Mobile Commerce Numbers Data Reveal a Conversion Problem, NOT a Traffic Problem. So What?
According to the Tenba Group, mobile devices generate 80% of the retail ecommerce sales in China. This compares to the global average of 64%. And as for the U.S., Insider Intelligence forecasts that m-commerce will reach $284 billion, or 45% of the total U.S....
#TRENDING – AUGUST
Big Tech Still Split Over Whether Remote Work Works There is a subculture of investors for whom the word of Jeff Bezos is a universal truth. That's the type of fanaticism a company attracts once it's achieved success and notoriety at Amazon’s level. ...
A Third-Party Digital Payment Revolution
Last month, we talked a bit about digital payment options in Asian markets vs. the US. The central thesis common to much of that research is this: Mobile ecommerce, or m-commerce, is the wave of the future and the inevitable direction of eCommerce. But, mobile...
USPS Timeline: Everything You Need to Know
January 2017: Trump inherits an empty USPS Board of Governors Barack Obama’s nominees for the USPS Board of Governors are blocked. Trump is able to appoint a Republican majority of his own choosing. Unusually, Trump inherits an empty board. The USPS Board of Governors...