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Independent Truckers Group Loses its Lawsuit to Stop ELD Mandate

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association had asked the court to vacate the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s final rule, which was issued in December 2015 and is scheduled to go into effect Dec. 17, 2017.

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Hold on Online Grocery, Study Shows Consumers Still Satisfied with Supermarket Experience

Retail Feedback Group

The 2016 U.S. Supermarket Experience Study reveals that supermarket shoppers rated quality/freshness of the food and groceries followed by the cleanliness of the store as the two highest-rated core experience factors.

Examining key supermarket retailing fundamentals illustrates that supermarkets performed well in some of these critical areas yet show room for improvement in others.

Delivery App Postmates Raises Another $140 Million in Funding

The new infusion of capital will mostly be used to improve engineering and expand into new markets as Postmates re-emphasizes their efforts to compete with Amazon Prime.

About 6,000 merchants pay for better placement on the app and to be featured in the Postmates Plus Unlimited program, which encourages members to place larger orders in lieu of delivery charges.

USDA Approves Three New Varieties of GMO Potatoes

The potato companies say the modification will help reduce food waste and therefore help increase food security by keeping potatoes in the food supply that would otherwise be discarded.

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Software & Technology

Report: Online Grocery Poised for 'Major Boom' in 2017

The expansion of click and collect at retail stores will help close a gap between the large percentage of shoppers already making grocery purchases online and the relatively low percentage of fast-moving consumer goods purchased online overall.

Walmart will start with tests of grocery delivery through Uber in Phoenix, Ariz., and Lyft in Denver, Colo., which it expects to start within the next two weeks. This is in addition to a Sam’s Club pilot that started in March with Deliv involving delivery of general merchandise and grocery for business members in Miami, Fla.

Walmart's in Canada Caught Red-Handed Wasting Food

The investigation found on 12 visits to two Wal-Mart stores in the Toronto-area repeatedly throwing away unused produce, baked goods, frozen foods, meat and dairy products in garbage bins out back well before its best-before date and unopened.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Joint Georgia-South Carolina Port Project Reaches First Milestone

Georgia Ports Authority

The idea is to have the first phase of the new terminal operating in a decade when container capacity at the ports in both Charleston and Savannah begins running out.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a public notice that it plans to prepare a draft environmental impact statement on the proposed terminal in Jasper County on the South Carolina side of the river.

Pepsi to Invest $16.5 Million on New DC in North Carolina

The St. Pauls, N.C., site was chosen from seven options in two states and will consolidate six different distribution centers into the new facility.

Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced that Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC will create 50 jobs over the next five years at a new $16.5 million distribution center in Robeson County.

Japan's Three Largest Shippers to Merge Container Operations

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Mitsui O.S.K. will combine their container operations to create a business worth about 300 billion yen, or $2.9 billion.

The three companies said they expected combining their fleets to save about ¥110 billion per year. The deal is expected to be complete by July 1, with operations beginning in April 2018. The companies’ bulk-shipping lines, which transport cargo like grain and iron ore, will remain independent.

Soybean Exports in 3Q Spark Best GDP Growth in Two Years

Gross domestic product increased at a 2.9 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the strongest since the third quarter of 2014 and beat economists' expectations for a 2.5 percent expansion pace.

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Mondelez Recalls Oreo Fudge Cremes Due to Undeclared Milk Allergen

Mondelez has issued a nationwide voluntary recall in the United States of it original Oreo Fudge Cremes and mint flavored Oreo Fudge Cremes cookies due to milk allergen not being declared in the ingredient list.

One allergic reaction had been reported in the United States where the Oreo cookies were distributed.

Brexit Will 'Ruin' Food Industry in Ireland and UK

Former Ireland prime ministers John Bruton and Bertie Ahern warn a European Union committee about possible common external tariffs between Ireland and the UK.

“The inter-relationships are enormous. Tariffs could cripple a huge amount of the food industry; the bureaucracy would be enormous – the amount of people involved, the add-on costs of running that kind of system. My concern is people would start going elsewhere for markets and it would really work totally against the entire industry and that would be a huge loss,' said former Ireland prime minister Bertie Ahern.

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