USgift to supply Service Merch. site

Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 12/11/2000 12:00:00 AM

ATLANTA -Gift, garden and home products distributor USgift has agreed to expand and fulfill a portion of all online orders of gift, garden and home decorative accessories for Service Merchandise's website, www.ServiceMerchandise.com.

USgift, a business-to-business website that sells home products to more than 20,000 retailers, will supply and provide customer delivery for items like rugs, lighting, wall art, tabletop accessories and linens. Ingram Fulfillment Partners of Nashville in turn is partnering with USgift to provide fulfillment services.

USgift guarantees orders will be shipped according to customers' delivery requests within one or two business days of USgift's electronic receipt of the order from Service Merchandise.com.

Because of USgift's agreement with ServiceMerchandise.com and online home store OurHouse.com, many of USgift's 300 suppliers will now be enabled to participate in Internet distribution for the first time.