In industries like logistics and transportation, blue-collar employee turnover rates can be as high as 70% making it almost impossible to keep up with the ever-increasing supply and demand for goods and services, particularly in e-commerce.

The chief of the company’s Amazon Fresh grocery banner answers that question in an exclusive interview with Progressive Grocer.

Americans continue to cram Walmart's physical and digital stores, in a sign that higher prices and inventory challenges are not dampening consumer enthusiasm for shopping.

There are more than three million garments in the 200,000 square-ft purpose-built warehouse with clothes flying from department to department on what’s known as ‘the wave’.

Instawork, the leading flexible work marketplace for warehouse and logistics businesses across the U.S., announced today The State of Warehouse Labor Report, highlighting trends in staffing and retention efforts for the warehouse and logistics industry.

The concept behind the toolmaker’s strategy is to locate manufacturing capacity near the markets served by the toolmaker, and, whenever feasible, to purchase materials and parts from suppliers close to the point of manufacturing.

City officials in Europe and the U.S. are pushing back against rapid grocery delivery services, noting that their dark stores and armies of couriers are disrupting residential neighborhoods and may be violating zoning rules.

A large assortment can be an advantage for grocers selling online, but they need to narrow the range — or personalize it, to use the industry buzzword — for each shopper.

In less than a year, that small Fagelstraat garage has become an extreme example of how dark stores can clash with local neighbors.

Over the past two years, Amazon has more than doubled its warehouse holdings from 192 million square feet at the end of 2019 to more than 410 million square feet today.

Months after a string of high-profile retail thefts, retailers are looking to turn the itchy tags attached to the back of a blouse or new pair of jeans fresh off the rack into a more sophisticated piece of covert tracking technology used to set off store alarms or help identify stolen products being sold online.

EBay is launching its own fulfilment program in Australia, allowing businesses selling through the platform to outsource storage, packing and postage of their products.

Last year saw more than 1 million more baby boomers exit the workforce than was happening annually pre-lockdown. Not long before the pandemic, a common refrain was that boomers were staying in the workforce too long, longer than their parents did, and thus robbing millennials of jobs and advancement opportunities.

The economics of 15-minute grocery delivery in the five boroughs are so tricky that some companies have already gone belly up, while others are looking to sell their New York City business.

Partnered with the Alphabet subsidiary known as Wing, the pilot program has already been launched in Queensland – namely the Southeastern suburbs of Logan Central, Kingston, Underwood, Slacks Creek, and Woodridge. The domestic branch of the Colonel’s network has confirmed it plans to expand this service to nearby locations, potentially beyond.

The U.S., arguably the biggest market in the world, can seem like a wealthy and homogenous place, where everyone shares the same language and currency. But in reality, it is cutthroat, competitive, and nuanced. “[The U.S.] is the biggest market for those people who can succeed,” said Kestenbaum. “But for many non-U.S. companies in retail, it’s a graveyard.”