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Amazon Prime Video Makes Japanese Delicacies '1-Click' Purchase

Amazon hopes this combination of online streaming and shopping can differentiate the new service from traditional shopping channels.

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enVista Selected for HighJump Warehouse Management System Implementation

Kayco chose enVista based on its warehouse management system and food distribution expertise.

Software Solutions

BlueGrace Logistics Receives $255 M Investment, Will Add 700 Positions

BlueGrace Logistics LLC

BlueGrace intends to use the funding to fuel the rapid growth of the business, including hiring 500 to 700 new employees, accelerating its national expansion plans and pursuing strategic acquisitions.

Founded in 2009, BlueGrace has developed a proprietary software platform that provides customers who need to ship goods with multiple offers from trucking companies.

Supply Chain Visibility

How to Build a Supply Chain that Can Tackle Quick-Service Restaurant Breakfast Challenges

The most in-demand item on your supply chain breakfast menu should be a heaping scoop of agility.

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E-Commerce Puts Kroger Into Competition with Partner Procter & Gamble

The expansion of private-label brands could be a threat to consumer-product companies that fail to generate excitement for their brands with innovation and advertising.

BJ’s Wholesale Club Taps CommerceHub Boost E-Commerce Growth

BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc.

The platform will coordinate the process of buying, storing and shipping inventory from CommerceHub’s network of approximately 9,500 drop-ship suppliers that receive orders and ship products directly to consumers.

BJ’s joins a vibrant network of trading partners, which in 2015 powered an estimated $11.6 billion in gross merchandise value (total economic value of goods) through CommerceHub’s platform.

Software & Technology

Walmart Bids to Acquire Jet.com to Fight Amazon

The world's largest retailer is playing catch up with Amazon.com Inc. on distribution and technology, and acquiring Jet.com could give Wal-Mart access to their innovative pricing software, its network of warehouses and customer data.

Wal-Mart disclosed a total of $3.1 billion for e-commerce and digital projects, such as its platform and new warehouses, in the four fiscal years to January 2017.

E-Commerce Solutions

Illinois Lawmakers Crack Down on Unlicensed E-Commerce Wine Shipments

The legislation represents the alcohol industry's attempt to protect the so-called three-tier system against unlicensed wine shippers sending booze to Illinois customers and merchants illegally bringing alcohol across state borders without paying taxes.

When you buy a six-pack or a bottle of wine or tequila at a store in Illinois, you're participating in the three-tier system in its most traditional format. A wholesaler sold that alcohol to the store after buying it from the manufacturer.

Grocery Delivery Startup Shipt Raises $20.1 Million to Take on Instacart

Shipt members receive unlimited grocery deliveries on all orders over $35 and Shipt shoppers are paid per-order and average about $17 per-shop, according to TechCrunch.

Now with offices in San Francisco, Shipt has grown to deliver groceries in 27 cities across 10 states with a community of more than 5,000 shoppers.

Emerging Technologies

How Bitcoin Technology Can Build Trust in the Food Supply Chain

Provenance, a small U.K. B2B software startup, is experimenting with proving tuna caught in Indonesia is being delivered to Japanese restaurants, using info on sensors or RFID tags and local certification, recorded in the blockchain, to track the fish.

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Fleet Management

Hyperloop to Unveil First Major Prototype

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT)

The site will also house a new Transponics test lab, which will continue to innovate on the propulsion system that launches a Hyperloop vehicle to high speeds.

Hyperloop One has announced the opening of Hyperloop One Metalworks, the first Hyperloop manufacturing plant in the world.

Waste Reduction

3D Printing of Food Expands, Saves Waste and Helps Environment

The global market for 3D printed food is anticipated to be driven by a need for mass customization, as 3D printing saves both time and waste.

3D printing of food has the potential to trump many current food customization techniques, though the manufacturing cost is quite high.

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