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Blank Sailings Are Masking Ocean Capacity Growth: How Importers Should Adjust Planning
More ships or slots in the market do not automatically give importers more dependable shipping space. Carriers can add nominal capacity while simultaneously cancelling scheduled voyages—known as blank sailings—to manage supply, demand, and network performance. Supply Chain Dive reports that uneven capacity growth and blank sailings are contributing to longer lead times and reduced schedule […]
2026 Holiday Ecommerce Planning: From Shopping Forecasts to Inventory, Marketing, and Margin Decisions
Holiday predictions become useful only when they change a decision. For ecommerce leaders, the practical question is not whether a forecast sounds plausible, but which operating assumption it challenges—and how to limit the downside if it proves wrong. Practical Ecommerce’s five predictions for 2026 holiday shopping provide planning inputs rather than guaranteed outcomes. Merchants should […]
Entering Indonesia: A Practical Ecommerce Market-Entry Checklist for Foreign Brands
Indonesia presents foreign brands with an attractive but easily misread ecommerce opportunity. Practical Ecommerce highlights a gap between the country’s high internet penetration and the comparatively low share of retail sales conducted online. That gap can indicate room for growth, but it does not prove that a particular product, price point, or operating model will […]
Should Your Marketing Team Adopt AI Video Creation Tools?
AI video creation can look like an easy productivity win for a small marketing team: produce more variations, edit assets faster, and reduce dependence on specialist software. But adoption should not be decided by the quality of a few impressive demonstrations. The practical question is whether a tool such as Gemini Omni Flash can create […]
How Small Businesses Can Automate Hiring Without Losing Human Oversight
Hiring automation can help a small business process applications and coordinate interviews with less administrative effort. It can also amplify a vague job description, an unsuitable scoring rule, or an overlooked bias. The useful question is therefore not whether to automate recruitment, but where automation can reduce repetitive work without transferring consequential decisions to software. […]
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