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SanMar’s Sustainability Journey

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While it was originally scheduled for San Diego, the ongoing Covid pandemic pushed it online once again this year. SanMar was founded by Marty Lott from the basement of a Seattle office building in 1971. A couple of weeks ago, I attended Körber Supply Chain’s Elevate User conference.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

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Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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

BlueYonder

This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers. It was only for residents of Minneapolis, Denver, Houston, San Diego and St. Walmart Slashes ‘A Few Dozen’ Corporate Jobs.

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

BlueYonder

This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers. It was only for residents of Minneapolis, Denver, Houston, San Diego and St. Walmart Slashes ‘A Few Dozen’ Corporate Jobs.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

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Amazon will rent the planes from Seattle-based lessor Altavair, which is sending the used passenger aircraft to Airbus’ maintenance and overhaul partner to be remodeled for carrying cargo containers. Eleni Kounalakis, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and Supervisor Nora Vargas at the signing ceremony in Mexico City.

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Investing in Manufacturing Innovation & Competitiveness: Will the next Silicon Valley be located in the United States?

GlobalTranz

Seattle and New York specialize in software publishing research, Boston, and San Diego in pharmaceuticals and medicines, and Houston in mining research. Not only do these cities excel in R&D, they tend to specialize in R&D surrounding specific industries.

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What are America’s Most Inventive Cities?

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Inventors from San Jose, California have been issued more patents than any other city on our list despite having a population less than 1/8th the size of New York’s. Joining San Jose in the top five are two more staples of the California tech industry, San Francisco and San Diego.

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