Nobody wants to pay for shipping anymore, and that’s going to put a lot of pressure on warehousing and delivery companies to cut costs. Since Amazon.com is already pushing its human workforce to their limits, robots are going to pick up that slack on the warehousing side. Salesforce found that 85 percent of orders they tracked over the day offered free shipping. In fact, free deliveries are so commonplace now that the majority of retailers are offering it without minimum orders. But that’s only half of the story.
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