Links Warehousing & Fulfillment
553 Basaltic Road L4K 4W8 Vaughan, ON, Canada

We went inside an Amazon.com warehouse on Cyber Monday.

CONSUMERS EXPECT FREE SHIPPING The critical price point that online shoppers have for shipping goods is getting clearer: It's zero. The number of consumers who insist they won't pay for shipping is growing and the insistence on free shipping is reverberating across the retail industry. ... More than half the past year's orders from 30 of the biggest e-commerce merchants were shipped free of charge compared with 33% two years ago. Of course, the big problem hanging over our clients is that shipping isn't free. For online retailers who can afford it, free shipping is becoming a loss leader - the e-tailing equivalent of selling milk below cost to increase grocery-store traffic. Amazon Prime is a big driver of the trend with its offer of free shipping under the annual membership fee. That's made shipping costs a new front in price wars, and that's having a knock-on effect, creating a big barrier to entry for smaller companies that can't compete with the big players in gaining parcel discounts and saving on costs. Source: Wall Street Journal At Links we offer our clients great shipping rates, allowing for greater flexibility on determining your product's price point. Our large volumes and long term relationships allow our clients to leverage of the discounts that we have negotiated with UPS, Canada Post, DHL and other shippers due to the sheer volume of orders processed by Links.