Free Shipping Increases Sales 12.4% Say Amazon
- Amazon are encouraging retailers to offer free shipping as they say it leads to a significant increase to sell through rates, even if prices are higher to account for shipping costs. Offering free shipping typically leads up to 12.4% sales uplift and can increase the chances of becoming the Featured Offer. Amazon’s numbers are an average based on a 2020 Study of sales uplift of Free Shipping offers compared to identical offers with paid shipping but the same total landed price (item price + shipping fee).
Zipline Wants to Green Last-Mile Delivery with Drones – Watch Out Amazon & Walmart!
- Zipline plans to launch an instant-ordering service for groceries and other daily goods that it says can reduce delivery emissions by nearly 98% over combustion cars. The system, which the company announced publicly on Wednesday and plans to launch by early next year, is designed to replicate the experience of ordering from Doordash or UberEats, except without cars.
Amazon Automated Grade and Resell Programme
- Amazon’s Automated Grade and Resell programme is a way to increase recovery value from returns which are considered not to be sellable as New. This allows you to recover more value from the inventory while letting Amazon take care of the complexity and reducing potential disposals at the same time. You can get started by selecting Grade and Resell in your Automated Unfulfillable Settings within the Fulfilment by Amazon settings page in Seller Central. After enrollment, your eligible unfulfillable customer returns will be automatically evaluated by one of Amazon’s returns specialists and relisted as used under the parent ASIN.
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