Urban Fulfillment Disruption is Gently’s Goal

| Mike O'Brien

Gently hopes to become a disrupter of urban fulfillment and major retailers with multi-billion-dollar networks, offering a same-day, nano fulfillment model using small nodes located around a city, tapping a predictive analytics engine to stock and position inventory in anticipation of demand.

Geodis Acquisition Adds Drayage in Southern, Gulf Ports

| Mike O'Brien

Geodis, a provider of freight forwarding and logistics, has added drayage at southern and gulf ports with the acquisition of Southern Companies, following its 2022 purchase of Need It Now Delivers. Southern Companies provides drayage, container deconsolidation and consolidation, trucking and warehousing services at ports in Miami, Tampa, the Everglades, Houston, Charleston and Savannah.

GS1 US Looking for 2D Barcode Champions

| Mike O'Brien

Standards body GS1 US is looking for major retailers and brands to step up and implement its QR-like Digital Link 2D barcode on packages, in order to drive broader market adoption and enable the transmission of richer data that can unlock a trove of value-added services like discounts and offers at checkout.