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Ship-from-store

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, ship-from-store means: Fulfilling online delivery orders using stock and staff at a physical retail store rather than only a warehouse.

In Turkish: mağazadan kargolama

How it is used

Use for orders dispatched from shops to customers; click and collect instead asks the customer to collect the goods.

Example sentences

  1. Ship-from-store helped us sell stock sitting in quieter branches.

    Online demand can use inventory that has not sold through local footfall.

  2. Each ship-from-store order needs a packing station away from the sales floor.

    The model adds dispatch work to the physical store's normal activities.

Common collocations

  • ship-from-store order
  • ship-from-store fulfillment
  • ship-from-store program
  • omnichannelDescribes selling through several connected channels, such as an online store, app, marketplaces and physical shops, that share stock, customer data and one experience.
  • shippingSending orders to customers by a delivery company, and also the fee or service option for doing so, such as standard or express shipping.

More terms: Shipping and Fulfillment

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