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| Warehouse Employment Up 3.8% Since COVID-19 Lockdowns in March |
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| Warehouse employment is up 3.8% since the coronavirus lockdowns began in mid-March, one of the few bright spots in an economy that has seen an overall dip of 7% in payrolls during that period, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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| How America's Shopping Malls Can Thrive As Ecommerce Grows |
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| Shopping malls are well-positioned to become a centralized operating system for smaller retailers to leverage the operational and financial benefits of things like BOPIS and curbside. Creating a flexible range of services, spaces, leases and more will help malls regain community relevance and become profitable. Here's how it can happen. |
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| Vargo Partners with Kindred, Fetch Robotics |
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| Ecommerce fulfillment software and systems integration provider Vargo has partnered with robotics sortation and grasping robot maker Kindred and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) creator Fetch Robotics to help their systems better sync with order orchestration and workflows. This continues a recent trend of SI/robotics partnerships. |
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| Handling Holiday Ecommerce Fulfillment Issues |
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| For retailers, massive holiday ecommerce this year raises the prospect of more customer complaints, lost package claims, returns due to delays and possible shipping fraud as harried customer service agents try to keep shoppers happy by making post-order changes. Here’s how you can plan now to keep holiday customers happy. |
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| Secure Carrier Capacity at the End of 2020 |
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A massive shift to ecommerce due to COVID-19 restrictions has created peak-like conditions for shippers and carriers throughout the late spring and summer, sending demand and costs soaring. Now comes the actual holiday season, a huge unknown but still expected to generate staggering volumes.
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