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The Friday Report: May 22nd, 2020
Amazon Announces $4 Billion in Spending to Ensure Worker Safety In response to employee complaints and concerns about COVID-19 infecting its workforce, Amazon recently imposed over 150 industry-wide safety protocols and changes to its facilities and warehousess to...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Consumer Behavior, E-Commerce Fulfillment and Cold Storage Warehouses
With the advent of the COVID-19 outbreak, the world has had to re-engineer daily life, developing new processes for meeting everyday needs, working from home environments and outlasting a virus that continues to befuddle researchers, scientists and medical...
The Friday Report: May 15th, 2020
USDA to Launch Farmers to Family Food Box Program to Feed the Hungry Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has initiated a part of the federal response to those suffering from COVID-19 outbreak food challenges. The new $3 billion plan named “Farmers to Family Food Box...
The Friday Report: May 8th, 2020
COVID-19 Meat Processing Woes Lead to Increased Demand for Meatless Meat With the recent COVID-19 outbreak impacting meat processing plants across the nation, American consumers seem to be developing a taste for plant-based food products. Beyond the meat shortages,...
The Friday Report: May 1st, 2020
Macy’s Anticipates Reopening All Its Stores within 6 Weeks Anxious to get back to business, Macy’s announced that it would reopen 58 of its retail stores on Monday, May 4th in states that have eased stay at home restrictions. This includes Georgia and South...
The Friday Report: April 24th, 2020
Leveraging Its Logistics, Amazon Opens PPE Store to Healthcare Workers, First Responders and Governments Without much fanfare, Amazon opened a nonprofit store to provide personal protection equipment and needed medical supplies for the fight against COVID-19. Known...
How Pharma and Life Science Distributors Avoid Supply Chain Disruption During COVID-19 Outbreak
First, consumers and professionals in the pharmaceutical industry feared that the trade wars would cause supply chain disruptions. Now, a more insidious risk has emerged, one more challenging to conquer. In this challenging time of the COVID-19 outbreak, many...
The Friday Report: April 17th, 2020
New Tech Tools Ease Shortage of Overnight Rest Areas for Truck Drivers Two companies, Trucker Tools and TruckPark announced that they have formed an alliance to aid truck drivers in finding safe parking facilities for overnight stays. Trucker Tools is a technology...
The Friday Report: April 3rd, 2020 – SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION
SOLVED: The Great Pandemic Toilet Paper Mystery According to companies that produce toilet paper including Proctor & Gamble and Georgia Pacific, there is no actual shortage of toilet paper, even though demand currently exceeds supply. Although paper goods are...
The Friday Report: March 20th, 2020
Chinese Tariffs Continue on Medical Equipment Recently 160 businesses and organizations wrote a letter to the White House to request a suspension in tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of goods imported from China. Analysts and industry associations are concerned...