Was looking at a shipment for an order I placed not too long ago where I decided to try out the online store for a company that has hundreds of retail locations. I figured since it was a big item it would potentially make financial sense to have them ship it to me for free as opposed to me using money to go get it. To my surprise, while looking at the shipping details it mentioned that the item was coming out of the warehouse in Toronto. I was thinking how it would have been so much faster for the company to just get one of the local stores to ship the item out.<\/p>\n
That then put everything in perspective as a friend told me once how a lot of companies simply don\u2019t have the distribution structure to handle online ordering. From what I gather, the way they make up for it cost wise internally is that the shipping is nowhere near as fast as other businesses as it looks like take a truckload of orders and send them all out at once. This is as opposed to shipping and processing each order individually if necessary. I just hope the item arrives before Christmas now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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