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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. 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. While we are sad to see him go, we wish him nothing the best.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Warehouse vacancy rates sink to 27-year low. In early April, employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island made history by becoming the first Amazon warehouse to vote to join a union (JFK8 fulfillment center). Do other warehouses follow suit and join a union?’

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend?

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news: McDonald’s is testing a new drive-thru concept. The company is testing a small-format restaurant in Fort Worth, TX, where the centerpiece is a conveyor system that delivers food to a mobile-order lane. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories.

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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 Bloomberg, an investment manager is paying for 179 million square feet of urban logistics properties — the warehouses used by Amazon.com Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Lowes Foods pilots grocery pickup lockers at the workplace. Amazon is continuing to invest in robots for the warehouse, with the hope that more robots will help to improve employee safety. Bert can freely move around a warehouse carrying carts and goods.