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Sears – Achieving Home Delivery Excellence

Talking Logistics

Christina Gross, Sacramento Routing Manager, then added: “Because we’re now working with a live, real-time system, we’re able to make adjustments and see those reflected in the routes right away. Companies can deploy cloud-based route planning and execution solutions relatively quickly.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 11-15, 2017)

Talking Logistics

California looks at dumping gas tax for per-mile fee as cars use less fuel (Sacramento Bee). Not counting thousands of sites inside its retail stores, the shipping company now has about 4,000 locations in places like grocery stores, dry cleaners and “mom-and-pop” merchants. More than 500 grocery stores, including Kroger Co.

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Customer-Obsessed Businesses are Upping Their Last-Mile Game

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s not just the retail heavyweights that are sharpening their focus on online fulfillment, regional supermarket companies like Stop & Shop and Raley’s are improving their last-mile game to woo internet shoppers. Another US-based ecommerce company increased its on-time delivery by a whopping 96%. was home to 1500 dark kitchens.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers. Why More Companies are Rolling Back Loyalty Programs. A typical Amazon warehouse job pays $13 or so an hour. This would have Office Depot Inc.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers. Why More Companies are Rolling Back Loyalty Programs. A typical Amazon warehouse job pays $13 or so an hour. This would have Office Depot Inc.

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Ryder Places First Medium-Duty Electric Vehicle Order with Chanje Energy and Begins to Roll Out Charging Stations

Supply Chain Network

Ryder also plans to equip its maintenance facilities in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Jose, Calif. eMotorWerks, an Enel Group company, is providing JuiceBox Pro 40 level 2 charging stations for installation at this first wave of Ryder EV maintenance facilities. About Chanje.

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Amazon Leasing Air Cargo Space, Delivering by Drone

Multichannel Merchant

In unrelated aerial news from Amazon, the company has begun making drone deliveries in Texas and Washington state, as has (no coincidence) Walmart, in Texas, Florida and Arizona , according to various media. The company received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for the deliveries in August. Maximum payload is 5 lbs.,

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