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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce.

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Kroger Restaurant Supply Takes Grocer into Foodservice Distribution

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Kroger Restaurant Supply opened for business on April 5 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Source: Data from USDA Economic Research Service Food Expenditure Series. Kroger’s new service went live on the day of the announcement, and it has been available in select zip codes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017

Talking Logistics

Going from Big Data to Big Decisions (Quintiq World Tour London). Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. Here are some posts I wrote this year sharing my takeaways from various conferences: The Big Bear in the Room (Insights from Kenco Customer Summit 2016).

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Warehouses are the next HOT investment triggered by the digital transformation of the supply chain

NC State SCRC

A recent article in Bloomberg suggests that warehouses are now becoming one of the hottest investments in the market, based on recent moves by the Blackstone Group LP, who are betting $18.7 Department of Commerce data released in May showed. billion on the shift towards e-commerce. Total retail sales, meanwhile, were estimated at $1.34

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

Talking Logistics

At its research facility at the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, NASA will use the data supplied by Uber to simulate a small passenger-carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic.

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Autonomous Vehicles Maker Clevon Launches in U.S.

Multichannel Merchant

office in Fort Worth, TX to launch its planned expansion here, with a number of big-box retailers and delivery providers interested, according to its CEO. Vehicles can be programmed to pick up orders at warehouses, retail stores, dark stores and MFCs for final delivery to end customers, servicing 4-5 households in a single trip.