Bain and Dallas-based Barber Partners have formed a joint venture aimed at spending $500 million to build 10 to 15 refrigerated warehouses across the U.S. over the next three to five years, the firms said Tuesday, with the average facility spanning roughly 300,000 square feet.

Instacart workers, who fulfill online orders for consumers, say their jobs have become more difficult and less lucrative as they see fewer, smaller orders than they did earlier in the pandemic.

German factories have more robots than their US counterparts—so why are Americans four times more likely to leave their manufacturing jobs?

In his first interview since being named CEO-elect of FedEx, Raj Subramaniam talks about preparing for a high-profile succession and setting a path for what’s next.

One of the top retailers in the US is building out its delivery fleet, adding smart shopping carts to its stores and courting food brands to advertise on its app. But it's not Amazon or Instacart. It's Kroger.

The novel idea of brands selling their products directly to consumers online and "cutting out the middleman" seemed to make financial sense. Without a retail partner cutting into profit margins, brands could make more money and pass on savings to consumers.

After four years of aggressively cutting the accounts of retail partners and accelerating its direct sales, Nike says it's entering the "next phase" of its business plan. That's coinciding with a growing sense of the limitations of direct-to-consumer efforts.

The British Library’s National Newspaper Building in Boston Spa, UK, holds millions of pages from newspapers spanning centuries. Get a rare chance to go inside the void to see the robot cranes in action and find out about the measures in place to protect the history within.

2021 was the year of the delivery. The e-commerce boom has driven a steady rise in parcel volumes. Evidence of this can be seen with around 34% more parcels sent via Royal Mail within the UK in the five months from April 2021 to August 2021 compared to the same time in pre-pandemic 2019.

The pandemic has impacted e-commerce in multiple ways. It has accelerated e-commerce growth by years and changed consumer buying behavior. Yet, it also constrained delivery capacity and impacted delivery performance.

The automated warehouse, which is already partially operational, can process up to 500,000 items a day. It houses an army of 256 robots scuttling around the clock to pick and pack orders for the group's online beauty websites, including Lookfantastic and Cult Beauty.

Some analysts say we will spend much more time in the metaverse in the years ahead. But what’s the appeal? The Globe’s Joe Castaldo suits up and gets lost in the Decentraland and Horizon Worlds platforms

Mr. Olsavsky said the company was pulling back on some of its expansion plans so it could more efficiently maximize the spaces it currently has.

The world's largest online retailer on Thursday reported $2 billion in incremental costs from having excess fulfillment and transportation capacity, a dramatic shift from just two years ago when Amazon had to turn away merchants' goods because it had room only for vital supplies.

This type of development is increasingly attractive to tenants with a large customer base in urban markets because the supply of industrial-zoned land is shrinking in most densely populated areas, say industry insiders.

This 60,000-square-foot store takes the sustainable agenda a step further with solar panels and hyperefficient heating and cooling, both of which are essential in a city with extreme temperatures in the winter and summer months.

A recent university study finds that at least for the grocery space, precision (the duration of the delivery window) and flexibility (ability to pick the times of the day and days of the week for delivery) can be as or more important than speed for home delivery.

With its new service that whisks groceries to consumers’ doorsteps in as fast as 15 minutes, Publix is turning up the dial on speed another notch as it tests convenience delivery in a major urban market.

Despite an emphasis on automation and robotics, one of the hottest topics at this year’s MODEX in Atlanta was hiring and retaining humans. It shouldn’t be a surprise. The U.S. unemployment rate overall was 3.9% in 2021

USAA Real Estate and Seefried Industrial Properties are nearing completion of a 161,000-square-foot industrial building in the 157-acre Southfield Park 35 in Dallas that will be one of the first industrial warehouses constructed with sustainable building materials to reduce its carbon impact by more than 45 percent.