When you think holiday, do you also think free shipping? Consumers value – often demand – free shipping this time of year, putting pressure on retailers to balance making the offer against maintaining profits. Free shipping offers are likely to ramp up quickly heading into the thick of the holiday shopping season: one-third of retailers surveyed expect to launch their first free holiday shipping offer sometime in November.
We dug into the Shop.org eHoliday 2013 Pre-Holiday Study conducted by...