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Customer-Obsessed Businesses are Upping Their Last-Mile Game

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market opened a sortation center in Minnesota last year to strengthen its last-mile capabilities. billion globally by 2025. Brick-and-mortar behemoth, Target, is calibrating its last-mile logistics to keep itself at pace with the shifting trends in consumer behavior. The eighth-largest retailer in the U.S. billion to 42.8

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Driver Shortage in Trucking: Time for Plan B

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The Minnesota-based firm’s $9 million a year in revenue “ could go to $13 million or $14 million overnight if I could put drivers in those trucks ,” said Charlie Hoag, manager of Copeland’s terminal in Des Moines, Iowa. . Or we could just grind it out until Plan C is ready to implement: driverless trucks.

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The best coffee marketing ideas to grow your roastery sales

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billion people on social media by 2025, and Hootsuite/We Are Social found the average person spends nearly three hours on social media each and every day. Just ask the nine different Minnesota roasteries who joined forces in the name of charity, each roasting the same coffee blend but with their own spin, while donating proceeds to charity.