Online sales decline in April as inflation takes hold with shoppers
Online grocery sales in April declined nearly 4% compared to the same month last year, to $8.1 billion, according to the latest monthly report from Brick Meets Click and Mercatus.
Target prioritizes supply chain in leadership shuffle
Target on Thursday announced it will elevate its supply chain and logistics officer to the leadership team as part of an announced series of management leadership shifts, barely a year after making similar changes.
Digital grocery will be a $243 billion market in the US by 2025
With digital grocery buyers accounting for more than half of the US population, signaling a landmark year in 2021, retailers are rushing to respond
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Postal Service rolls out e-commerce-focused shipping service
The evolution of the U.S. Postal Service is continuing, with the agency introducing its USPS Connect eCommerce service for online businesses.
UPS to deploy RFIDs through 100 facilities this year
More advanced and cheaper RFID tags have unlocked a range of opportunities for the technology in warehouse settings that a larger share of companies plan to take advantage of in the near future.
Automated Ports See West Coast Dockworkers Clock More Hours
Employers at West Coast ports at the center of the U.S. supply-chain crisis released a study extolling the benefits of automation a week before the start of labor talks where the issue is set to feature.
Savioke’s next-generation service robot: Relay+
With RaaS, hotel operators can purchase and deploy Relay+ and pay a basic monthly subscription fee, without the need to go through a complicated capital asset buying process.
Why People Really Quit Their Jobs
People don’t quit a job, the saying goes — they quit a boss. We’ve heard it so many times that when we started tracking why employees leave Facebook, all bets were on managers.
Amazon physical stores notch another double-digit sales gain in Q1
Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go and Just Walk Out technology continue expansion
Albertsons expands grocery delivery with Uber Eats
Albertsons Cos. is extending its online grocery delivery partnership with Uber Eats to more than 2,000 of its stores.
EasyBins Aims to Change Online Shopping
Online delivery service EasyBins is pioneering the idea of eliminating the store as a shopping constraint by allowing consumers to order groceries from various stores at once through its service.
Walgreens Robots Could Fill Almost Half of Prescriptions by 2024
Your next Walgreens prescription could be filled by a robot and you wouldn’t even know it.
Amazon Accelerating Grocery Format Openings
Amazon is accelerating the expansion of its physical food retail footprint across the U.S. even as it faces unprecedented inflationary pressures affecting its profits and operational costs
Instacart adds Metro and Giant Tiger to app as it aims to spur easing pandemic demand
The San Francisco-based company said Tuesday it has partnered with more than 10 new companies in Canada including grocery and drugstore retailer Metro Inc. and discount store Giant Tiger.
Amazon’s rout spotlights gloomy forecast for e-commerce stocks
Etsy, Wayfair and Shopify are hurtling toward earnings reports this week in the shadow of Amazon’s deep selloff.
Alimentation Couche-Tard in talks to combine with U.K. retailing giant: report
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is reportedly exchanging proposals in a multibillion-dollar combination with a British retailing giant that would feed its growth ambitions.
DPD UK introduces ‘More Time Needed’ delivery preference
Parcel carrier DPD UK has launched a new ‘More Time Needed’ option for deliveries to enable customers to specifically flag that they need more time to get to the door.
bpost launches second Ecozone
bpost has launched a second Ecozone in Leuven, Belgium – meaning all parcel, letter and newspaper deliveries in the city center are to be completed with zero emissions.