Perry Ellis International Partners with Via.Delivery to Help Shoppers Balance Shipping Costs with Speed, Convenience and Security

Perry Ellis helps shoppers combat porch piracy by enabling them to deliver orders to more than 21,000 convenient and secure Buy Online, Pickup Anywhere (BOPA) locations across the U.S.

Via.Delivery, the next-generation technology company transforming the U.S. shipping and delivery market by creating the country's largest BOPA network, today announced that ahead of the 2022 holiday shopping season, Perry Ellis® went live on the Via.Delivery platform, along with its well-recognized brands An Original Penguin® by Munsingwear®, Rafaella®, Cubavera®, Callaway® and GolfApparelShop.com, which features six major golf and tennis brands including PGA TOUR® and Jack Nicklaus®. Perry Ellis and its participating brands selected Via.Delivery to offer ecommerce shoppers convenient, lowcost Buy Online, Pickup Anywhere (BOPA) shipping options. All six unique storefronts also integrated Via.Delivery's order management system with a leading logistics and transportation company's fulfillment services, and will support fulfillment and shipping services from each brand's brick-and-mortar stores.

With infiation at a 40-year high, the majority of U.S. consumers (73%) are watching their spending as we head into the 2022 holiday season, and about 3 in 5 consumers (59%) are downright stressed about holiday spending, according to a recent survey of 1,004 U.S. consumers.

"Shoppers are more price conscious than ever, right now, and our online shoppers are looking for ways to balance shipping costs with speed, convenience and security," said Jay Nigrelli, Senior Vice President of Ecommerce at Perry Ellis International. "With Via.Delivery, our shoppers can save on shipping by having their orders delivered to one of more than 21,000 convenient BOPA locations across the nation, including inside pharmacies, grocery stores, gas stations, or convenience stores."

Nigrelli also is excited about the company's ability to avoid certain peak season surcharges with the use of this service. "Via.Delivery's concept of delivering to commercial locations eliminates residential surcharges that are further increased during the peak holiday shipping season."

Additionally, shoppers are concerned their packages will be stolen as more than 210 million packages vanished from porches across the U.S. last year, according to Safewise research. Porch piracy impacts a lot of shoppers — 64.1% of Americans have been victims of package theft in the last year and 53.5% had multiple parcels snatched during that period.

"During peak season, there is always a surge in package deliveries. More packages equates to more opportunities for theft," said Mitchell Nikitin, CEO and co-founder of Via.Delivery. "Shoppers can protect themselves from porch pirates by having their online orders shipped to one of our BOPA pickup locations. Each one of our locations accepts and securely holds packages for up to seven (7) calendar days."

Via.Delivery has observed a recent uptick in the number of e-commerce merchants that want to add BOPA shipping options, which can help minimize shoppingcart abandonment, drive sales conversions and reduce customer service needs and stolen package claims. As more online merchants offer BOPA options, consumer interest also increases. Via.Delivery is meeting the growing demand by making it easier for consumers to use reputable, widely known retail and delivery provider sites to pick up their online purchases. For more information about Via.Delivery, visit: https://via.delivery

Via.Delivery is the alternative delivery location company poised to transform the shipping and delivery markets by building the world's largest alternative delivery location network. The company is helping online retailers that don't have brick-and-mortar locations compete with Amazon and traditional retailers by offering them the technology they need to rapidly activate BOPA (Buy Online, Pickup Anywhere) and giving shoppers access to thousands of convenient pickup locations with dramatically reduced shipping costs. Additionally, the company provides the delivery services required to ship those packages to the locations within its network.

Via.Delivery's first-to-market next-gen digital logistics and cloud-based delivery platform makes it easy for ecommerce retailers to activate BOPA, ship orders to thousands of BOPA locations across the country, and automatically alert shoppers of shipping and delivery status. Via.Delivery's API and Shopify plug-in also make it possible for e-commerce merchants to get up and running with BOPA, almost instantly.

Via.Delivery has more than 190 pure play e-commerce merchants on its technology platform and more than 21,000 alternative delivery locations across the U.S.

Via.Delivery is based in Menlo Park, CA. To learn more please visit via.delivery. Follow Via.Delivery on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.