News / Home deliveries the key battleground in omnichannel retailing this Christmas

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Omnichannel retailers preparing for the wave of home deliveries to consumers in the run-up to Christmas are likely to depend more than ever on logistics service providers.

And according to a new report from Retail Systems Research (RSR), retailers that have achieved above-market e-commerce sales growth have employed 3PLs is transporting goods direct from distribution centres to consumers’ homes to a far greater degree than retailers which either use their own transport fleets or distribute from shops to homes.

While 54% of ...