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Kroger Restaurant Supply Takes Grocer into Foodservice Distribution

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

It was intriguing to read last month that The Kroger Company, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, with nearly $138 Billion in revenues, has launched a foodservice distribution business. Kroger Restaurant Supply opened for business on April 5 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Launch of Kroger Restaurant Supply.

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

The move is part of Walmart’s multi-billion investment in a hub-and-spoke model of local distribution combining dark stores, automation and last mile solutions to handle local order fulfillment as close as possible to demand.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory. Gatik , the autonomous vehicle startup focused on the “middle mile,” will start using its self-driving trucks this summer to deliver Georgia-Pacific paper goods to several dozen Sam’s Club stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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

Talking Logistics

On Wednesday Amazon announced “the expansion of Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery to even more metro areas including Charlotte, Cincinnati, Fresno, Louisville, Milwaukee, Nashville, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Stockton, and Tucson, plus new areas in Central New Jersey, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and San Diego.”

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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. With the new routes, customers also have more sustainable service and wider coverage.