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Despite High Street stores re-opening, online Christmas orders are still booming. Many stores are now pulling back final order dates to ensure delivery, while others have axed services, warns home delivery expert ParcelHero. The home delivery expert ParcelHero is warning of a Christmas delivery meltdown. It says many retailers are now advising standard delivery times of up to 14 days, scrapping express delivery options and making their final order dates for Christmas even earlier. The…

Hermes, one of the UK’s leading consumer delivery companies, is delighted to announce that Marks & Spencer is its first retail partner to use its unique new video technology – Hermes Play.  The clever tech allows videos to be played on parcel labels using augmented reality that can be accessed by downloading the Hermes App. For retailers, Hermes Play adds a commercial opportunity to parcels, as the promotional videos can also be accessed throughout the…

Debenhams can’t expect a Christmas miracle.  The High Street’s ‘Welcome-Back Wednesday’ will do little to ease the surge in online shopping, forecasts the home delivery expert ParcelHero. It says the end of the first lockdown proved a damp squib for town centre stores and Arcadia and floundering Debenhams shouldn’t pin their hopes on a last-minute Christmas bounce-back.  The news that the Government is clearing the way for stores to be open 24 hours a day…

Don’t leave shopping too late, urges ParcelHero This Christmas, shoppers need to be more organised than ever before. Stores are setting earlier final online order dates, warns the e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero. Its new Christmas deadline tool will help savvy shoppers avoid the lockdown logjam.  The impact of Covid on delivery networks means the trend for ever-later Christmas final order dates will be reversed this year, warns the parcel price comparison site ParcelHero. Help is…

Central Transport, the fleet engineering department of John Lewis Partnership has risen to a number of delivery challenges at their Oxford Street store by fitting Access XL Multi-Deck tail lifts to their urban double-deck trailers, for dock and kerbside deliveries. Delivering to both the store front and rear, the urban double-deckers required a two-stage lifting solution which could handle access to cargo on two levels while being able to stow away at the half-way point…

Online electricals retailer AO is opening its third warehouse in four months as it continues to expand its logistics network at lightening speed. The site is the largest warehouse of the three, adding over 275,000 sq ft of distribution space to their portfolio with the premises at G-Park in Stoke-on-Trent.  In recent months, AO has acquired over half a million sq ft of new warehousing space across Cheshire and Staffordshire to ensure it has the…

October’s 48-hour Prime Day bonanza will top $10bn worldwide, forecasts the home delivery expert ParcelHero. It predicts UK shoppers will spend a record amount snapping up early Christmas gifts before Amazon’s strict new Brexit rules kick in. Amazon’s Prime Day 48-hour shopping fest, which takes place 13-14 October, will see shoppers spend over $10bn worldwide, forecasts the home delivery expert ParcelHero. It says 15 million Brits look set to splash £1bn in early Christmas shopping…