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The Friday Report: February 26th, 2021
DHL Pilots Drive-Up Mobile Pop-Up Retail Store in Response to Social Distancing Concerns The global COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to numerous innovations. Industry leader DHL announced recently that it had opened a 2,200 cubic foot drive up mobile pop-up retail...
The Friday Report: February 19th, 2021
CPG Relies on Favored Tool During COVID-19 Pandemic: SKU Rationalization Consumer tastes have changed. During the COVID pandemic, when much of the population was locked down, snacking became common. These increasing habits lead to issues in servicing the wide...
The Friday Report: February 12th, 2021
Need for E-Commerce Professionals Escalates In the LinkedIn’s Jobs on the Rise report, frontline e-commerce roles grew by approximately 73% between April and October 2020. This is the highest year-over-year growth period on record. As of January 15th, 2021, there...
The Friday Report: January 29th, 2021
GM Launches BrightDrop, Electric First-to-Last Mile Products, Software and Services An innovative concept for “electrifying” the delivery side of e-commerce D2C deliveries recently was announced by General Motors. GM has debuted the announcement of its new...
Cold Storage Warehouses Adapt to Consumers’ Hunger for Frozen Foods
Not sure if you heard, but frozen foods are at the height of their popularity these days. At first, it seemed like a fluke. Grocery chains were reporting that most of their frozen food products were cleared out when the lockdown was initially announced. The trend...
The Friday Report: January 15th, 2021
American Trucking Industry Braces for Year of Transition With the global coronavirus pandemic continuing to rage on, experts anticipate that what may have started out as a temporary fix may now become established patterns. Consumers have become comfortable ordering...
The Friday Report: December 18th, 2020
2020 Holiday Shipping Gridlock Armageddon Online shopping demand has finally caught up with the shipping carriers. ShipMatrix, a software solutions company which provides shipping tracking, recently revealed the extent of holiday package shipping gridlock and it was...
COVID-19, Essential Medical Supplies, PPE and the Medical Supply Chain
Did you know that the U.S. is the largest importer of face masks, eye protective gear and medical gloves in the world? Because of this, the United States is heavily dependent upon the global supply chain. When the coronavirus outbreak first occurred in...
The Friday Report: December 11th, 2020 – COVID-19 Vaccine Edition
Food and Bev Industry Groups Lobby for COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Out of concern for essential workers, representatives from fifteen food, beverage and CPG industry trade groups lobbied both President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden in mid-November to prioritize...
The Friday Report: December 4th, 2020 – Retail Edition
7-Eleven Sails Ahead with Small Basket Delivery Did you know that 7-Eleven offers delivery via seven different third-party services including Instacart, Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDah and Grubhub? 7-Eleven is now able to offer delivery covering 90% of its service...