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As brands enter the most stressful period of the year and prepare for the holiday spikes, The Stord Collective is growing to meet those needs. Now Stord customers have access to an even larger community of brands to help deploy rapid solutions with preferred pricing. The Collective is continuing to expand and offer more nuanced capabilities for specific industries and problems. It is the most flexible and adaptable coalition of partners to meet any e-commerce brands needs. To learn more about The Stord Collective or to apply to be a participating partner go to stord.com/collective Thanks to new members including: PostPilot, MyWorks, Social Snowball ☃️, Dash.fi, Mandrel, SixSync, Stock It Better, and Giftnote for Shopify.

Are you prepared to survive The E-commerce Zone? With Black Friday Cyber Monday right around the corner, brands are facing their most stressful period of the entire year. To help we compiled these Scary E-Commerce Stories to Tell in the Dark so you can avoid these real life nightmares. Give it a read IF YOU DARE!!! https://lnkd.in/gNvQtUh9 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♂️

Today we celebrate a decade of delivery. A decade of rewriting what the consumer experience can be. A decade of revolutionizing an archaic industry with an integrated technology-first approach to fulfillment. A decade of powering commerce for the world’s leading brands. We cannot wait to see where the next decade will take us. Thank you to our Stord teammates around the globe who work tirelessly every day to set the new standard for consumer experiences. Thank you to our staunch investors for your endless support. And, thank you to our customers for your unwavering trust. As Sean Henry would say, “Onward!”

2022 - 10.4% 2023 - 13.7% 2024 - 15% 2025 - ?% Every year U.S. retailers have lost more and more to returns fraud. In 2024 returns fraud cost U.S. brands $103 billion. As more consumers shift their spending habits to e-commerce, brands are struggling to manage the influx of returns while ensuring a speedy exchange and refund experience for valued customers. Unfortunately, bad actors have quickly identified this weakness and are exploiting it. With Black Friday Cyber Monday just ahead, brand's need to be prepared to protect their bottom lines without sacrificing their consumer experience. Alex Kent, our Director of Partnerships and Strategy, explores the many ways brands can work to prevent returns fraud. Give it a read here: https://lnkd.in/ewqBWE-s

How do you build a product or a brand that has predictable growth and performance? As peak season ramps up and sales expectations grow, we wanted to take a moment and explore both the post-Covid DTC evolution and how brands can create products that are immune to the wild swings of peak seasonality. Taylor Holiday, CEO of Common Thread Collective, shares his insights and details how Born Primitive built a new product line to help their business grow regardless of holiday shopping trends. Watch the full speech here: https://lnkd.in/gbzeNPk2

Are you curious how a Foreign-Trade Zone works? Kyle VanGoethem, our VP of Strategy and Innovation, explores Stord's nationwide FTZ warehouse network and how it can help brands: 1. Defer duties and eliminate them entirely in certain scenarios 2. Save millions on Merchandise Processing Fees 3. Reduce tariff burden through kitting and other value added services 4. Manage and hold inventory Read the full piece and discover how our fleet of FTZ locations can help your brand in the post-de minimis world: https://lnkd.in/gfr8tdjr

How have Stord brands managed a post-de minimis world? Brad Obert, our VP of Transportation shares several of the strategies and capabilities we have leveraged over the last month to help mitigate disruptions and protect margins in this blog post: https://lnkd.in/gZR8BkhC Brad explores how to leverage our FTZ network, bonded warehouses, bulk importing, diversifying supply chains, operationalizing customs paperwork, and more. The impacts of this policy change are ongoing, but Stord will continue to evolve so our brands are prepared for this and future impediments.

The de minimis exemption has only been closed for a few weeks now, but the impact is still reverberating across the global e-commerce landscape. Knowing what you should do to ensure limited disruptions can be exhausting. Alex Kent spoke to several e-commerce leaders to discuss this exact problem, revealing how a brand can survive and potentially improve it's customer experience if they make the right strategic shifts. Read and watch the full thing here: https://lnkd.in/gFHAfGrD

Consumers expect every interaction with a brand to feel personal. Meeting that expectation consistently and at scale remains a complex operational challenge for most modern brands. With advances in AI and fulfillment technology, e-commerce brands now have a powerful new tool to deliver holistic personalization across digital and physical experiences: AI-powered personalized branded inserts. Douglas Franklin, who recently joined us through the acquisition of Penny Black and is now the General Manager of Stord Unbox, wrote this piece on how this innovative solution is unboxing scalable, hyper-personalized end-to-end consumer experiences for brands of all sizes. Read the full piece here: https://hubs.ly/Q03GvVj_0

The end of the de minimis rule is no longer just a talking point. Today, it’s the new reality for every e-commerce brand. For years, a decades-old exemption created an express lane for international brands, letting them ship over $65 billion worth of inventory into the U.S. duty-free last year. This gave them a massive "logistics arbitrage" on both shipping costs and tax. That express lane is now closed. This is an opportunity for every brand that has invested in a resilient, domestic fulfillment strategy. You can now compete on an even playing field, offering the faster, more reliable delivery that customers expect. For brands without a domestic fulfillment strategy, now is the time to pivot. By bringing your inventory into the U.S., you can offset those international tariffs and deliver products in days instead of weeks. This is how you protect your margins and elevate the consumer experience. Our CEO, Sean Henry, explained on CNN's Early Start the full impact of this policy change. If your brand has been negatively impacted by this policy change, we have special programs ready to help and this guide to dig into all the details: https://lnkd.in/djcvgEJq