DC Velocity - April 2018

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Don’t be fooled by the hype about free, fast delivery, says “Best Practices” blogger Chris Jones. There are still customer segments that will trade speed for savings. Not convinced? Amazon—the company that’s probably most responsible for driving the speedy-delivery trend—is now offering store credits to customers to get them to choose slower delivery. Read “Will you pay your customers to slow down their deliveries?” at http://blogs.dcvelocity. com/bestpractices/.

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