Flexing its Whole Foods Market muscles, Amazon announced an expansion of same-day grocery delivery in New York and three cities in Florida, after Walmart’s Jet.com and FreshDirect both announced plans for fulfillment centers in the Bronx, NY.
Flytrex, an Israeli company that developed a control system for automatic drone flight, may soon be helping deliver food to residents of a North Carolina town as one of 10 FAA-sanctioned test projects. As the first company to launch commercial drone delivery in Iceland, Flytrex is looking to expand the service to other countries.
Multichannel Merchant The News, Commentary & Events that Shaped Commerce This Week week of 7/27/2018 Assessing California Prop 65 Impacts on Ecommerce, Catalog Content On Aug. 30, amendments to California’s … Continue Reading →
Multichannel Merchant Operations & Fulfillment Strategies & Tactics week of 7/25/2018 UPS Testing Smart Lock Delivery in New York Following similar moves by FedEx, Amazon and Jet.com, UPS is piloting … Continue Reading →
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 17, 2018 — ODW Logistics is opening a high-technology logistics center near Columbus, Ohio to take ecommerce fulfillment to the next level. “We are focused on delivering innovative … Continue Reading →
Vancouver is the world’s hottest market for industrial and logistics facilities, followed by Beijing, based on a lack of available facilities and skyrocketing rents, according to a new report from CBRE. About a third of the activity is attributable to ecommerce, the company said.
Multichannel Merchant The News, Commentary & Events that Shaped Commerce This Week week of 7/20/2018 Amazon Prime Day Sales Up 24% from Last Year Amazon said Prime Day was another … Continue Reading →
Multichannel Merchant Operations & Fulfillment Strategies & Tactics week of 7/18/2018 UPS, Teamsters Reach Tentative Deal on New LTL Contract UPS has reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year … Continue Reading →
“Dock-to-stock” is the battle cry of every receiving department, because every one of them faces the same pressure to meet daily service levels. A best practice for ecommerce companies is clearing the dock and staging areas in the same shift. Here are 11 ways you can improve your dock-to-stock performance.
Leading enterprise software companies now delivering end-to-end logistics optimization BOULDER, Colo., July 11, 2018 – EVS, an innovator in warehouse management software (WMS), announced today that it has partnered with … Continue Reading →