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Sustainable eCommerce: Examples of Environmentally Friendly Online Retail

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Even with increased demand for 1 to 2-day delivery , advancements in the logistics industry enable merchants to stock their inventory closer to their customers to lower time in transit and reduce next day air shipments (which emit nearly 6 times more carbon than ground shipments).

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Sustainable eCommerce: Five Brands Leading the Way

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Even with increased demand for 1 to 2-day delivery , advancements in the logistics industry enable merchants to stock their inventory closer to their customers to lower time in transit and reduce next day air shipments (which emit nearly 6 times more carbon than ground shipments).

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8 Inventory Costing Methods That You Might Not Know About

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Inventory costing or valuation is an accounting concept that has a direct impact on your gross profit and thus taxable income. Methods of valuing inventory are simply different cost-flow assumptions about how to allocate your cost of goods available for sale. We’ll start by explaining why inventory costing is important.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

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In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability. Business Address 1 *. Business Address 2. California. Connecticut. District of Columbia. Massachusetts.

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Crisp Team Spotlight: Eric Takemoto

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Meet Eric Role : Software Engineer Lives in: Salem, Oregon Favorite grocery store product: Lay’s BBQ potato chips Starting up at Crisp Eric Takemoto grew up in Hawaii and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he studied computer engineering.

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Knowing Your Consumer is Essential for Grocery Business Success

Enterra Insights

One area in which multiculturalism is alive and well is the food industry. You don’t have to be Asian to enjoy Chinese, Thai, Filipino, or Japanese food. In the food and drink sector, Americans enjoy food from around the globe. You don’t have to be Latino to enjoy Caribbean or Mexican flavors. Footnotes. [1]

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

The ongoing pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, along with the Russia-Ukraine war, limited available supplies of cocoa, edible oil, and other food ingredients. With the new partnership, retailers will fulfill orders from inventory in their stores, and a Flex delivery driver will pick them up from the retailer.