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In our previous article we looked at where AI agents really stand in post-purchase operations going into this peak, and ended with four things we think have to be true before you would let one near a live order: the data has to be normalised, the rules have to exist and be readable by the agent, ...
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We have written about agentic commerce a few times this year, and each time it was mostly about the agent that does the buying, most recently in August when we asked who owns the delivery promise when the shopper is a machine. This piece is about the other side, which gets less attention and whic...
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In our previous article we went through the 2026 surcharge calendar and the end of the UPS and FedEx duopoly, and ended with four things the retailers who are ready for this peak seem to have done: modelled the effective cost rather than the headline, made the alternative carriers real options before Black ...
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Two things are happening in US parcel this week, and it is worth looking at them together rather than one at a time. The first is that surcharge season has started. UPS's peak fees took effect on 27 September, FedEx's on 28 September, USPS's temporary holiday pricing starts on 4 October, and the ...
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On Wednesday we wrote about the January returns wave and argued that the returns plan belongs inside the peak plan, set up in September and October rather than improvised after Christmas. This post is the practical follow-up: how returns actually work on Carriyo today, what is configurable ahead ...
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Most peak-season plans we see are genuinely good on the way out. Cut-off dates are agreed with carriers, capacity is booked, the warehouse has its seasonal staff lined up, and someone has modelled how many orders Black Friday will produce. Then the plan more or less stops at the last delivery bef...
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Back in July we wrote about where Carriyo Intelligence was heading, and the short version was that the reporting inside Carriyo was going to move beyond operational dashboards into questions a finance or CX lead would actually ask. Since then two of those reports have been built end to end, and w...
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Most eCommerce operations have solved the first delivery-data problem. If a customer asks where their parcel is, someone can look it up, and usually the customer can look it up themselves on a tracking page. Ten years ago that was hard. Today it is table stakes, and the question that comes up in ...
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On Wednesday we looked at what a year without de minimis actually changed: over $1 billion in newly collected US duties, e-commerce airfreight lanes still repricing, the EU following suit in July, and a statutory endpoint already fixed for 2027. The regulatory story is, in a sense, over — the dut...
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Just over a year ago — on August 29, 2025 — the United States suspended duty-free de minimis treatment for imports worldwide. The $800 exemption that had quietly underwritten a decade of cross-border eCommerce growth stopped applying to any parcel entering the US, and one of the largest natural e...
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On Wednesday we lined up what retail's top performers are verifiably doing in 2026 — selling speed and certainty as a product, turning stores into fulfillment networks, making returns surgical, re-localizing cross-border, engineering peak, and becoming legible to AI shoppers — and found the commo...
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Every earnings season tells the same story with new numbers: the gap between retail's top performers and everyone else keeps widening. What's striking, when you line up what the winners are actually doing, is how little of it happens before the buy button. The strategies compounding into market s...