Amazon has set package delivery expectations at once-seemingly-impossible next or same day, and an entire industry has grown up around it, in hopes of keeping smaller firms competitive with the retail giant.

The tech giant has invited media to its first Delivering the Future event, which is taking place in a warehouse in Boston

The high-tech, modern facility has been built to the latest standards, offering improved logistics and increasing efficiency.

Amazon looks set to continue its dominance in the space as it has been testing new tech innovations to drive performance and capabilities in the sector, ahead of its competition.

Agile Cold Storage broke ground Thursday on its fourth cold storage warehouse in Georgia.

The online grocer Ocado has struck a deal to build robotic warehouses for a South Korean retailer, sending its share price rocketing.

A new Amazon fulfillment center in Detroit at the former State Fairgrounds is no longer scheduled to open this year as originally planned

Some companies say that investing in automation is helping them bring in a new generation of tech-savvy workers interested in working on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies aimed at driving efficiency in supply chains.

Amazon’s newest and most technologically advanced fulfillment center in Canada has opened in the city of Ottawa.

The documents also indicate potential lapses in the company's learning and development data.

A fuel/convenience retailer is offering self-directed robotic floor scrubbers to its network of more than 7,000 stores.

The cloud-connected Inventory Scan towers incorporated into the scrubbers capture data as the robot moves autonomously around the store, providing insights into product localization, planogram compliance, product stock levels and pricing accuracy verification.

Since the end of the Great Recession, a major force has changed the landscape and the working life for millions of Americans: warehouses.

As warehousing spreads across the US landscape — and warehouse work becomes the one of the dominant forms of blue-collar employment — these two companies increasingly control how America gets its stuff.

TikTok is trying to bring a version of China’s $400 billion livestream shopping industry to the United States, according to internal company information reviewed by Semafor. The plan, a person familiar with the matter said, is part of a wider global initiative that TikTok leaders have dubbed “Project Aquaman.”

Food delivery giant Instacart Inc. is holding off on plans to go public until at least next year, according people familiar with the matter. Instacart had been planning to file its S-1 filing this week but reconsidered amid a turbulent market, the people said.

Thanks to the pandemic-driven boom in online shopping, the country's fulfillment and distribution centers continued to staff up at a furious pace. Today they employ 1.8 million Americans — up 37% since January 2020 and up 183% from January 2010.