Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. The other significant trend this year has been the continued loss of jobs in the warehouse sector.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

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?’ Demand for piece-picking robots gains steam.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

MAY 25, 2022

Kroger Restaurant Supply opened for business on April 5 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Food away from home” overtook “food at home” for the first time around 2010, as illustrated in the chart below. Source: Data from USDA Economic Research Service Food Expenditure Series. The Launch of Kroger Restaurant Supply.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

2017 Food Industry Transportation and Logistics Conference , March 5-7, Orlando, FL. Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. Industry Conferences (chronological order). Retail Supply Chain Conference , February 12 – 15, Orlando, FL.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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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NC State SCRC

JUNE 5, 2019

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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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

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. Groceries are delivered to the lockers via the Lowes Foods To Go service.

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