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UPS goes Groupon, launching discounts for retailers

  • Categories Innovation & Technology
  • Date April 20, 2018
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United Parcel Service Inc is taking a page out of a retailer’s playbook, offering discounts on everything from Costco memberships to luxury clothes and Disneyland tickets to loyal customers, UPS said on Wednesday.

Marcus, UPS Vice President of customer technology marketing, discusses the roll out of its deals website at UPS headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., April 17, 2018. Picture taken April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Johnson

The UPS My Choice Deals program, first reported by Reuters, appears to mark the first time the world’s largest package deliverer is hoping to cash in on shippers’ products directly.

More than 43 million global consumers will get access to some 500 deals – like 10 percent off Goodyear tires, 20 percent off Neiman Marcus [NMRCUS.UL] luxury clothes, or the ability to donate half of one percent of an Amazon purchase to charity.

UPS hopes to drum up more business and build brand loyalty for retailers, who hopefully would choose UPS over rival FedEx Corp (FDX.N) or other couriers, including Amazon’s own logistics and delivery operations.

My Choice helps recipients track parcels to their door or choose alternative delivery locations, like an office or a UPS retail store.

The program was launched in 2011 to cut higher costs associated with “last mile” delivery to residential addresses by reducing multiple delivery attempts, returns, and customer complaints to retailers.

“My Choice enhances customer satisfaction because it provides them more control,” Hartford said, adding that My Choice could streamline its network, speed up deliveries and reduce per-unit costs and improve margins.

The discount program, tested over the last year and now being rolled out nationwide, reflects changes in UPS’ business, Marcus said. In 2011 deliveries to households amounted to about 40 percent of volume, with deliveries between businesses making up the rest. Currently, about half of volume goes directly to households.

My Choice deals are sent to customers in banner ads attached to delivery notifications, or consumers can log into a website to peruse them, Marcus said.

Discount loyalty programs have been long used by retailers, including Amazon’s Prime membership, Groupon Inc (GRPN.O), or Brad’s Deals.

UPS gets a commission on the deals for promoting the products, Marcus said, declining to discuss revenue expectations.

“These are active customers receiving deliveries, so the customers who signed up for My Choice have already proven they are willing to receive goods and they are willing to order online. It is a very active group of customers that shippers want to be engaged with,” Marcus said.

Source Reuters

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