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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

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

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Empty shipping containers stack up at US port depots. McCormick & Company , an American food company that manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavoring products to retail outlets, food manufacturers, and foodservice businesses is no exception. That’s all for this week.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

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Amazon is turning grocery-picking gig workers into Whole Foods employees. The plan, according to a letter to employees, is to bring gig workers on as Whole Foods employees. Now, it plans to separate its freight brokerage operation, which matches loads from shipping customers to available trucks, into a separate publicly traded company.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

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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. The restaurant features what the company calls an Order Ahead Lane, which serves mobile-order customers their food through a conveyor system.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 14 – 20)

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China port congestion worsens as ships divert away from Ningbo. As ships divert away from Ningbo amid uncertainty over how long virus control measures in the city will last, other ports are facing more pressure. And finally, Taco Bell is looking at ways to get you the food you ordered faster than ever.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 12 – 18)

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Home Depot contracted its own container ship. Lowes Foods pilots grocery pickup lockers at the workplace. The company has contracted a ship that will begin running next month. Waymo will transport goods along Interstate 45 between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Amazon hopes more robots will improve worker safety.