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I Fulfillment company history timeline

1861

1861 The first modern mail-order service is established in Newton, Wales.

1872

1872 Montgomery Ward establishes a mail-order business in Chicago with no physical storefront.

1899

1899 The first semi-truck, manufactured the year before, is sold in Cleveland, Ohio.

1924

1924 UPS builds the first conveyor belt system specifically for handling packages.

1969

The first eCommerce company, Compuserve, was founded in 1969.

1979

1979 Michael Aldrich creates “teleshopping” in Great Britain.

1990

However, it did not reach its full potential until Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and its accompanying browser in 1990.

1994

1994 The first secure, retail transaction takes place over the web.

1998

In 1998, PayPal created one of the first online systems for secure online payments.

1999

China’s dominant eCommerce site, Alibaba, launched in 1999.

2002

Safeway ventured into online shopping and delivery in 2002, but the business struggled.

2005

There was another significant eCommerce development in 2005.

2006

When Amazon launched their Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) service in 2006, it was a groundbreaking program.

2012

Founded in 2012, Instacart sends shoppers to local stores to pick out groceries that consumers order online.

2020

By 2020, there were 112 million Prime members in the United States — about one-third of the population.

By the beginning of 2020, that share had grown to almost 12%. As people stayed away from brick-and-mortar stores due to COVID-19, eCommerce had a historic 30% increase.

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