Grocery

What’s up with micro-fulfillment?

With increased accountability comes the need for streamlined operational management, this 'paper' discusses the powerful and effective solutions that blockchain can provide.

With the rising complexity and variety of suppliers as well as changing trucking regulations, supply chain executives and professionals in the food industry need to understand the challenges of dock scheduling in grocery supply chains.

As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had the effect of uprooting supply chain and logistics operations for shippers across various verticals, Minneapolis, Minn.-based global logistics services provider and freight forwarder C.H. Robinson today highlighted how it has focused on one segment that literally applies to everyone—the grocery sector.

Amazon.com Inc today said it is opening a supermarket in Los Angeles with high-tech shopping carts that let customers skip checkout lines, as the e-commerce giant builds out its offline presence.

For food retailers there are several unpredictable factors such as last-minute customer requests, specific delivery time windows, and sudden traffic congestion on roads, etc. that can create a disturbance on day-to-day delivery route planning efforts.

Discover how Bigbasket, with operations in 25+ cities and over 15,000+ products, achieved 99.5% on-time delivery for over 10 million customers.

With so much at stake, it’s critical to vet your potential food and beverage logistics providers to make sure they have the necessary capabilities for handling food and beverage products.

As was the case in a previous report issued in June, a new report issued last week by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE continued to make the case for how an ongoing increase in online grocery sales has spurred further demand for United States-based cold storage warehousing space.

In this paper, we discuss the scope of the food waste problem, where it's happening, and how you can help solve the problem; while at the same time maximizing your operations to take advantage of current food industry trends.

While a number of factors are creating a serious competitive challenge for grocery retailers, this 'paper' suggests solutions to help grocers get it right!

Walmart's online grocery delivery partnerships with ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft have ended, according to Reuters, a potential setback for the retailer's ambitions to challenge Amazon.com head-on with the speedy delivery of groceries to people's homes.

According to a Credit Suisse analyst, Walmart plans to hit a 40% US online growth target by 2019, and the company may have found a way to relieve its online growth concerns, as well as get it to its targets in the next two years.

The much-anticipated Amazon Go check-out free grocery store will open its doors to the public today, having weathered challenges that delayed its launch by almost a year the enhanced AI-driven technology appears ready for the Seattle masses.

Target Corp. has agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. by speeding the rollout of same-day shipping.