LicketyShip
For the past 10 years, the #1 complaint among internet shoppers has been “Lack of instant gratification.” Unlike shopping in regular stores, e-commerce sites cannot give the buyer a product immediately after he or she buys it. The buyer must wait, in some cases, up to 7-10 days for a shipment to arrive
“LicketyShip (Licketyship.com)”:http://licketyship.com/ has solved this problem.
By setting up relationships with retail partners, LicketyShip scans inventories of local stores. Its patent-pending software sorts available products by geography. When a customer buys a product, LicketyShip locates the item in a store close to the buyer, and a LicketyShip Courier delivers the product in 2 to 4 hours from the time of purchase.
Since products come from around the corner, and not from across the country, LicketyShip can deliver the same day for about the same price as an overnight delivery!
“LicketyShip (Licketyship.com)”:http://licketyship.com/ was founded in Fall of 2004 in cooperation between researchers and software engineers at Yale University and the University of Notre Dame. LicketyShip was recently “named a Top 5 Startup of 2005 by Fortune Magazine”:http://www.licketyship.com/press/987213981273.htm.
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