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Rising Shipping Costs Prompt Businesses to Get Creative

Lumicera, which ships 250,000 packages of medications yearly to 30,000 patients across the U.S., trains its pharmacists to be amateur meteorologists. (David Kasnic for The Wall Street Journal)

Rising shipping costs are primed to squeeze profits for businesses of all sizes this holiday season.

Entrepreneurs and executives say that to cope they are buying their own delivery vehicles, pleading with customers for patience and changing the products they sell.

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