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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

Warehouses have hired tens of thousands of California workers over the last five years to help fuel the fast-rising industry of online retail. Inside cavernous halls known as fulfillment centers, workers retrieve coffee filters, diapers and other items that are then packaged and shipped to customers. warehouses.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

Warehouses have hired tens of thousands of California workers over the last five years to help fuel the fast-rising industry of online retail. Inside cavernous halls known as fulfillment centers, workers retrieve coffee filters, diapers and other items that are then packaged and shipped to customers. warehouses.

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Customer-Obsessed Businesses are Upping Their Last-Mile Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Last year, Raley’s converted its closed store in Sacramento, California to a dark store — an e-commerce fulfillment center to meet the spiraling pick and on-demand deliveries. Even though there are several regulatory roadblocks, it is estimated that the drone industry will grow from 22.5 billion to 42.8 billion globally by 2025.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

FedEx Introduces Enhancements to Deep Frozen Shipping. The vehicles have a range of up to 75 miles and primarily will deliver packages to customers in Sacramento, San Bernardino, Ceres, Fresno and Bakersfield. Descartes Extends Cloud-Based Air Messaging Services for Forwarders & Brokers. operations for UPS.

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Reefer volumes gearing up for fall holidays

DAT Solutions

Most parts of California are shipping more loads, especially the Fresno market in central California. Offsetting this are declines out of Atlanta, Grand Rapids and Sacramento. Even though rates are slow to respond, freight volumes are rising as we get closer to the fall holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving.

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Reefer Freight Adjusts to Post-Holidays, Post-ELD

DAT Solutions

Reefer capacity is still tight, as the industry continues to adjust to the ELD mandate. Nogales, AZ , was the only produce-shipping market to post any big rate increases last week, as many others were down significantly. Miami, Denver, Sacramento and Lakeland, FL , all experienced sharp drops last week.