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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

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Wing and Zipline are drone delivery providers and will allow Walmart to cover 75 percent of the Dallas-Fort Worth population as stores in 30 towns and municipalities will now offer drone delivery service. In 2022, the company shifted away from national fulfillment to a regionalized network model. went out of business in 2023.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

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Add in soaring air freight costs, and the fruit will not only be hard to find, but incredibly expensive. Trucking, warehousing, and parcel-delivery companies added a combined 32,900 jobs last month, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary employment figures the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, down from 44,700 jobs added in April.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

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At the beginning of the year, the global chip shortage had become so dire that large industrial companies were taking scarce chips out of washing machines to plug them into industrial modules. The restaurant features what the company calls an Order Ahead Lane, which serves mobile-order customers their food through a conveyor system.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)

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Freight Operators Dismiss Threat of Digital Startups (WSJ – sub. Kuebix Surpasses 10,000 Companies Using Its Transportation Management System (TMS). Meanwhile, as reported by Bloomberg, “a who’s who of technology and aviation companies won U.S. De Beers tracks diamonds through supply chain using blockchain (Reuters).

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution. Manhattan Associates Empowers Warehouse Managers With New E-Commerce Capabilities. McLeod Software Unveils New Business Process Automation Solutions for Logistics Companies. Swisslog acquires Power Automation Systems (PAS). Analysts at Stifel Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 12 – 18)

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The company will focus on its higher selling items and putting a pause on lower selling items to try to correct the supply chain issues it is facing. Amazon is continuing to invest in robots for the warehouse, with the hope that more robots will help to improve employee safety.