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Editor’s Choice: What Supply Chains Must Overcome to Deliver on the Consumer Promise

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Recently, I was at my local grocery store for my weekly shopping trip and found myself in the packaged salads section. While this is easy for packaged/processed items with Best by Dates, it is not as easy for bulk, loose, or field packaged products. Am I alone in this habit or thinking? or squeezing an Avocado.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

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Evolving packaging: which involves making packaging 100 percent designed for recycling by 2025. The United States and Mexico are pushing forward with an aggressive investment into the international ports of entry along the nearly 2,000 miles of their shared boundary. Utilizing the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure package, the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

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The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. This allows faster delivery, as delivery stations go from handling 60,000 packages a day to over 110,000 during the holiday season. billion packages in the U.S.,

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

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US initiates trade fight with Mexico over energy policy. s Wing subsidiary has developed a fleet of new drone prototypes designed to more efficiently deliver packages ranging from small pill bottles to items weighing as much as 7 pounds. action, chalking it up to intense lobbying by what he called corrupt right-wing rivals in Mexico.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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Coke announces industry-leading target for reusable packaging. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates. Bridge linking US and Canada reopens after police remove last protesters.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

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Under the service, called Return a Package, an Uber driver will pick up sealed and prepaid packages at a customer location and drop them off at a local post office or FedEx Corp. Uber charges a $5 flat fee for up to five packages tendered at a time or a $3 fee for Uber One members. or UPS Inc. or UPS Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

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Once a customer places an order, the item is fulfilled from the store, packaged, loaded into the drone and delivered right to their yard using a cable that gently lowers the package. and North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in March amounted to $141.9 billion, up 23.8% compared to March 2021. Trucks moved $85.5