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Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 30, 2021
Apple establishing $100M distribution center in Hendricks County. Previously, some Prime members could get Amazon Fresh orders and Whole Foods deliveries dropped off in their garage, but only if they lived in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle. FedEx, Adobe agree to integrate e-commerce sales, service platforms.
Talking Logistics
AUGUST 5, 2016
First branded ‘Prime Air’ jet in Amazon’s fleet to fly at Seafair (Seattle Times). Buying Jet.com might strengthen Walmart’s e-commerce capabilities from a technology and distribution network perspective, but I’m not sure it directly addresses Amazon’s true killer competitive weapon: its Amazon Prime subscription service.
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Freightos
JULY 26, 2018
Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.
NC State SCRC
MARCH 30, 2021
More transportation vehicles are moving to autonomous drivers, including trucks already driven by Walmart between several of their distribution centers. These methods are being used primarily for distribution in congested cities where traffic is problematic, as well as remote areas where there are not a lot of other drop-offs to make.
Enterra Insights
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
”[1] Wikipedia defines urban agriculture more broadly to include “the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around urban areas. Food grown close to consumers reduces both transportation costs and food waste. ”[7] She goes on to note, “The cars are not cheap.
Enterra Insights
JULY 3, 2018
For congested metropolitan areas such as Seattle, the focus is actually on the ‘final 50 feet’ of those shipments.”[3] The study also found that clearing security accounted for 12% of total delivery time, while riding the freight elevator and looking for tenants’ locations accounted for 61% of overall time.”
Ware2Go
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Led by Amazon, the largest ecommerce companies have reset shoppers’ expectations for freight costs and delivery time. For example, a package sent 2,000 miles through USPS from Seattle to Tulsa would be Zone 8. Dimensional Weight (of DIM Weight) is the method that freight and postal carriers use to determine shipping prices.
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