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Are We Losing Our Jobs to Robots? Each 1 Costs 6 Jobs, a New Study Says

BlueYonder

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research examined the impact of robots in the workforce between 1990 and 2007. Austin based startup is gunning to be the next FedEx killer instead of UberRush. Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date.

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Are We Losing Our Jobs to Robots? Each 1 Costs 6 Jobs, a New Study Says

BlueYonder

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research examined the impact of robots in the workforce between 1990 and 2007. Austin based startup is gunning to be the next FedEx killer instead of UberRush. Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date.

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Amazon Prime Now – The Cost of Expediting the Last Mile

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

In fact, its operating cost per square foot of warehouse space has remained almost flat at $100 during the last 7 years in which the warehouse area in North America increased from roughly 9 million square feet in December 2007 to 60 million in December 2014.

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Amazon's Whole Foods Takeover: One Year Later

Elementum

Since 1980 the company has grown from 19 employees in its small Austin location to almost 500 sites across North America and the UK. Since 2007 it faced its share of challenges, including losing out to Walmart as the biggest seller of organic food in the U.S.

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The Ultimate List of Top Logistics Startups – Blog

Freightos

Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs – Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode – since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published. How much do we love freight innovation? And we found that freight innovation is hot. Really hot. bellhopnation.