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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. 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.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Walmart unleashes ‘largest drone delivery footprint of any U.S. retailer thanks to partnerships with Wing and Zipline.

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

It’s a model being replicated across retail as companies look to make their supply chain and inventory management as lean and efficient as possible. Best Buy, for example, has converted some stores in its hometown of Minneapolis into hybrid facilities by shrinking sales floor space and increasing on-site fulfillment operations.

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Kroger Restaurant Supply Takes Grocer into Foodservice Distribution

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Kroger Restaurant Supply opened for business on April 5 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Kroger’s new service went live on the day of the announcement, and it has been available in select zip codes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Launch of Kroger Restaurant Supply. Orders placed by midnight are delivered the next day.

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books. This could be far worse than an economic speed bump. How could Stagflation impact Supply Chain?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory. Gatik , the autonomous vehicle startup focused on the “middle mile,” will start using its self-driving trucks this summer to deliver Georgia-Pacific paper goods to several dozen Sam’s Club stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)

Talking Logistics

At its research facility at the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, NASA will use the data supplied by Uber to simulate a small passenger-carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic.