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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. The faster delivery times this year specifically may be attributed to changes in Amazon’s logistics strategy. percent of U.S.

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Texas: It Ain’t Bragging, If It’s True with Jason Giulietti

The Logistics of Logistics

In these roles, he has taken transformative and innovative approaches to economic development, both by having built a ground-up business attraction strategy, and by strengthening business retention efforts while engaging and leveraging public and private partners.

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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. Similarly, you’ll be in a better position to formulate innovative strategies and solutions to logistics problems in different sectors of the economy.

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

Network strategies are being reimagined as old models are incapable of meeting the twin imperatives of massive ecommerce demand and supply chain backups. 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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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon , which has struggled to streamline its grocery strategy, is looking at grocery-picking gig workers in a new way. Kodiak Robotics has been delivering freight between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston since mid-2019. The plan, according to a letter to employees, is to bring gig workers on as Whole Foods employees.

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Autonomous Middle Mile: Exploring the Future

Multichannel Merchant

” Mark Petrosoniak, Senior Manager of Strategy and Business Operations for autonomous technology company Gatik, said his company powered a driverless short haul pilot with Walmart in Arkansas last August, an industry first. ” Mike Plasencia, Director of New Product Strategy for Ryder System Inc., million.