Eastern Connection, a regional carrier with a 35-plus-year history, shut down its operations earlier this month, the company announced, leaving shippers in the Northeast from Maine to Virginia looking for alternate capacity. Other regional carriers, including Lasership and CDL, stand to benefit along with UPS, FedEx and the USPS.
Home Depot plans to spend $1.2 billion to upgrade its supply chain and fulfillment network between now and 2023, adding 170 distribution facilities to reach 90% of the U.S. population in a day or less, an executive said at a recent supply chain conference.
Amazon has announced Amazon@Penn, a staffed package pickup point to be opened on the University of Pennsylvania campus, the first at an Ivy League school.
Merchant panelists at Operations Summit 2015 said they’re doing all they can to decrease time-to-customer, but same-day delivery isn’t a high priority.
Designer Tom Ford has just launched a new ecommerce site which offers same-day delivery to New York City area fashionistas.
On Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop,” Prologis chairman and CEO, Hamid Moghadam touched on some of the hottest trends in American distribution including the location of the DCs to the customer and same-day delivery.