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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. The largest U.S.

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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. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers. went out of business in 2023.

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List of Top 7 Supply Chain Management Scholarships

SCMDOJO

The program targets high school seniors from minority groups residing in Texas and Fort Worth. However, you must be enrolled in a bachelor’s degree in transport or any area of logistics. The ideal candidates considered for this offer include those majoring in food service and the hospitality industry.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017

Talking Logistics

If you’re a transportation professional, for example, and all you know is transportation, your opportunities for advancement are limited compared to someone who has a broader supply chain perspective. 2017 Food Industry Transportation and Logistics Conference , March 5-7, Orlando, FL.

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

NC State SCRC

Those being purchased by BREIT are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Chicago, central Pennsylvania, Atlanta and south and central Florida, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. So what is the takeaway from this news?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 12 – 18)

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Lowes Foods pilots grocery pickup lockers at the workplace. Waymo will transport goods along Interstate 45 between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Lowes Foods has partnered with Bell and Howell’s QuickCollect Solutions unit to fulfill online grocery orders delivered to temperature-controlled pickup lockers at workplaces.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

One sector that is dealing with this now is fuel transportation. The companies that transport fuel to gas stations are scrambling to find qualified drivers to deliver every shipment. And finally, Taco Bell is looking at ways to get you the food you ordered faster than ever. That’s all for this week.