Millions of consumers — particularly older ones — say they may not shop in stores until there’s a coronavirus vaccine. Many aren't big fans of e-commerce, either. Here’s how to keep them spending.

Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of HelloFresh, the survey found 68 percent of respondents have used their time in quarantine to reevaluate their food shopping and cooking habits.

Forty-four percent of respondents said the top challenge they face when grocery shopping today is product shortages.

Aside from this worry, 42 percent of those surveyed also said they now worry about the cleanliness of the products they buy and the grocery store as a whole.

In the report, entitled “COVID-19 Special Report #6: Accelerated Retail Evolution Could Bolster Demand for Well-Located Logistics Space,” the report lays out multiple findings that speak to the ongoing intersection of e-commerce and logistics, against the backdrop of industrial real estate activity.

It’s been said that the e-commerce growth we’ve seen since March 2020 would’ve taken years to achieve if COVID-19, the global pandemic forcing people around the world to stay home, had not accelerated trends. Indeed the events of the second quarter of the year have changed e-commerce dramatically.

With more people clicking “buy” instead of venturing to the mall, demand for industrial real estate could reach an additional 1 billion square feet by 2025, according to a new report from JLL.

With more people clicking “buy” instead of venturing to the mall, demand for industrial real estate could reach an additional 1 billion square feet by 2025, according to a new report from JLL.

Festo, a German automation company mostly known for these kinds of whimsical fliers, has constructed a fleet of robotic birds, called BionicSwifts, that are nearly indistinguishable from their biological cousins. In the past, the firm has introduced plenty of other aerial wonders, from butterflies, to flying penguins, and even airborne jellyfish.

The pandemic has laid bare the broken business model for online grocery shopping and created new urgency for grocers to fix it, Bain said.

Buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) programs are key to serving these shoppers, but speed is of the essence: customers who wait less than two minutes to get their order are more than 4X as likely to return to the store than customers kept waiting for 10 minutes or more, according to a study by Rakuten Ready.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has said its new automated cold storage facility will be completed and operational by January 2022, with construction beginning in mid-July 2020.

Uber is launching an on-demand grocery delivery service in Latin America and Canada, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s Uber’s first major move into the competitive world of online grocery shopping since acquiring Cornershop, a leading online grocery provider in Chile, Mexico, Peru, Canada, Brazil, and Colombia.

The company, founded by design media magnate Adam Sandow, secured $28 million Series B funding in April in a round led by Bain Capital Venture's Merritt Hummer, and includes previous investors Raine Ventures and Starwood Capital CEO and cofounder Barry Sternlicht. Material Bank has raised a total of $55 million in funding to date.

DHL Supply Chain is continuing to invest in its life sciences and healthcare capabilities in North America.

The company has committed more than $70m to develop specialised warehouse facilities and to deploy new pharmaceutical and medical technologies.

Dynaleo received its production licence from Health Canada last week. The company has a 26,000-square-foot warehouse in an industrial park just south of the city.

The ‘Dubai Sky Dome’ project aims to transform Dubai into a virtual airspace infrastructure for unmanned aerial vehicles systems that connect places and buildings through runways and miniature airports across the city.

The new law facilitates the development of an integrated framework for licensing and issuing certificates, permits, NOCs, and inspection services related to drone systems, and a legal system for investigating drone accidents and incidents.

The chairman of Marks & Spencer has admitted there will be “very limited” scope for its customers to be able to shop with Ocado when its joint venture launches in September because of capacity constraints.

The four-year project will put semi-autonomous commercial trucks—with drivers in them at all times—on Interstate 70, the Indiana Toll Road and the Ohio Turnpike. The project also will involve gathering data about the vehicles’ performance, sharing that data with project partners, and analyzing I-70 itself to determine the highway’s readiness for autonomous vehicles.