On June 12, the fast-fashion retailer's parent company, Inditex, announced its plans to shut down between 1,000 and 1,200 brick-and-mortars over the next two years and divert resources into online sales strategies.

This industrial property is less than 3.5 miles from the 145th Street Bridge, Madison Avenue Bridge, Third Avenue Bridge, Willis Avenue Bridge and Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. It is 15 miles from JFK International Airport and just 8 miles from LaGuardia Airport.

With $42.5-million from the Government of Canada (through FedDev Ontario) and $7.45 million from Ontario, the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association, the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas, Communitech and Invest Ottawa will support over 21,900 small businesses across Ontario, to pivot their operations to include digital business models, regain lost revenue and become more resilient and competitive as the economy recovers.

This investment will also create jobs for more than 1,400 co-op students. Over the summer and fall work terms, students will gain valuable work experience creating online storefronts.

Grocery delivery giant Instacart has partnered with Staples US Retail to bring same-day delivery service to the home and office supply chain’s more than 1,000 U.S. stores.

Amazon is pushing ahead with the rollout of a rapid grocery service dubbed ‘Ultra Fast Fresh’ in the UK, suppliers briefed by the e-commerce giant have told The Grocer.

The robots are coming. Associated Wholesale Grocers announced last week the company plans to build a state of the art, automated distribution hub in Hernando.

European food delivery service Just Eat Takeaway has agreed to buy the US-based app Grubhub for $7.3bn (£5.8bn) in a deal that would create the world’s largest food delivery service outside China.

Morrisons has launched a website for its clothing brand Nutmeg, allowing customers to order items from the range without visiting a store. The move highlights the shift in consumer behaviour towards eCommerce during the Covid-19, which is expected to continue over the long-term.

Highfield Investment Group of Calgary will build a new $120-million, 1.23-million-square-foot distribution centre for home improvement retailer Lowe’s Canada in Rocky View County just north of the city.

Online grocery purchases continued to grow in May, with demand spurred by the COVID-19 crisis lifting sales 24% month-over-month to $6.6 billion, strategic advisory firm Brick Meets Click reported.

Amazon Australia is branching out to the grapevine and launching its own wine, beer and spirits store as online alcohol sales skyrocket.

Across the US, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 has rampaged through cold, cramped, meat processing facilities, sickening thousands of workers and killing at least 30 of them. With dozens of plants closed or cutting back operations, meat shortages have been forcing some grocery stores to ration grilling staples like ground beef and chicken breasts. At least one sausage factory, in Milwaukee, has had to hit pause on its hot dog production line.

But on the other side of the ocean, inside Europe’s largest pig slaughterhouse, the only visible sign that there’s a global pandemic going on is in the break room, where every other chair has been spirited away to leave conspicuous gaps between any would-be socializers. Otherwise, it’s business as usual. That’s because, at this meat plant, robots do most of the

Amazon is investing in the speed of its supply chain by leasing an additional 12 Boeing 767-300 aircraft ahead of next year’s opening of the Amazon Air Hub near Cincinnati.

Roofs of almost all (new) XXL distribution centers in the Netherlands now have a solar panel system. This is necessary, because more and more investors and investors in both new and existing distribution centers require BREEAM certification in the context of sustainability in order to be able to meet the CO2 reduction requirements. Gerrit Vink (Riskonet) provides tips and advice on investment and management of a solar panel installation.

The business models of major CPG companies are built on supply chain efficiency, but the supply chain behind turning one product — for example, a single soft drink recipe — into multiple SKUs means variation in form factor and packaging materials. Even if the liquid inside six different SKUs of Diet Coke are identical, the various sizes and marketing efforts complicate the supply chain.

A new report by Colliers International examines the possibility of multi-storey warehouses in the region, citing proven examples in dense urban centres in Asia and increasingly in Europe and elsewhere in North America where land also comes at a premium.

U.S. e-commerce sales will jump 18% this year due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic that forced more shoppers online, according to a new forecast released today by eMarketer. However, the surge in new online orders won’t make up for the overall hit that the U.S. retail sector will take this year, the firm noted. The analysts estimate that total U.S. retail sales, which also includes auto and fuel, will drop by 10.5% in 2020 to $4.894 trillion — a level not seen since 2016.

Target has made store-based fulfillment a central component of its omnichannel supply chain. The retailer fulfills 80% of its digital sales volume from Target brick-and-mortor locations. And in a patent application published last month, the company sketched out its idea for a store fulfillment manager (SFM) that would help coordinate the fulfillment process.

Paul A. Strassman, CIO icon from the US, became famous for his research that showed that spending on IT systems does not automatically add value to a business, and can even lower overall productivity.