Winning With Shopify Podcast: Ecommerce Growth for Shopify Store Owners7 Aug

Your Shopify Margins Are Disappearing: The Fulfilment Problem Nobody Sees

Your Shopify growth could be limited by something customers never see: your fulfilment operation.

Before building Ships A Lot, twin brothers Max and Zach Zitney were Shopify merchants themselves. They experienced first-hand how warehouse problems, rising shipping costs and unreliable fulfilment could damage margins, customer experience and growth.

In this episode, Max and Zach reveal the fulfilment mistakes that nearly broke their own ecommerce brand - and what growing Shopify brands need to know before scaling operations.

You’ll learn:

Why fulfilment problems can quietly destroy your Shopify margins
The biggest warning signs your current 3PL is holding back growth
How shipping costs and hidden fees impact profitability
Why poor fulfilment can waste your marketing spend and hurt retention
What Shopify brands should look for in a scalable 3PL partner

Max and Zach also share how their experience as merchants led them to create Ships A Lot, helping ecommerce brands improve fulfilment visibility, reduce shipping costs and scale more effectively.

In this episode:
(00:00) - Why they started a 3PL
(01:40) - Why their Shopify store struggled
(04:00) - The biggest fulfilment problems
(06:00) - Why fast shipping matters
(09:00) - Creating memorable customer experiences
(12:00) - Scaling personalised fulfilment
(16:00) - White-glove shipping strategies
(19:00) - Cutting shipping costs
(22:00) - Finding hidden margin leaks
(26:00) - Lessons from 10 years in ecommerce
(31:00) - Solving fulfilment problems
(35:00) - Advice for growing Shopify brands

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