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Infinity Transportation To Launch Expedited Refrigerated Intermodal Service

Infinity Intermodal

IT's new intermodal operating platform, Infinity Logistics (ITL), is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. Daily operations will be managed from a dedicated location in Kansas City, Mo.

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Budreck Truck Lines Breaks Ground On Freezer/Cooler Facility In Monee, Ill.

The site was selected as the preferred location for Budreck because of its visibility from I-57, proximity to Monee-Manhattan Road and TIF incentives from the Village of Monee.

From L to R: Tim Johnson, Tom Sauter, Rory Subler, Brad Subler, Chad Silvester, Ken Lattanzi, Doug Brucato, Chris Gary, James Molzahn, Jared Kenyon and Mark Augustyn.

IFDA Conference Report: ‘Warehouse Boot Camp’ Focuses On Workforce Solutions

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

The “boot camp” addressed a variety of supervisor concerns, such as how to recruit, how to train, what performance metrics to measure and how to compensate employees.

At left, Shaun McFaul, Ben E. Keith Co., Angel Garcia, Nicholas & Co., Paul Lodics, Eby-Brown Co. LLC, and Mike Hammond, Red Diamond Inc., field questions about motivating employees.

Research: Food Shoppers Rate Traditional Retailers Higher Than Online Offerings

While online and nontraditional grocery shopping options proliferate, research shows that shoppers rate traditional "brick-and-mortar" retailers significantly higher on a number of key attributes.

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E-commerce Infrastructure Rising, Real Estate Observer Notes

All of the big retailers are reconfiguring their supply chains so that they have enough capacity close to all the major population centers in the country.

Checking inventory is done by workers who have to use lifts and are harnessed in for safety as they scan products throughout the warehouse. The switch to drones could cut the time it takes to check the inventory throughout a facility that spans roughly 1.2 million square feet, or the equivalent of 26 football fields, from one month to one day.

Fleet Management

Omnitracs Completes Acquisition Of XRS Corp. For $178 Million

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

Omnitracs acquired XRS to strengthen its core technology portfolio, adding complementary solutions designed to help fleets solve critical business problems.

Newark Farmers Market Expands Investment In Fuel Cell Technology

Newark Farmers Market has purchased an additional 110 GenDrive units, more than doubling the size of its fuel cell-powered lift truck fleet at the Newark location.

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Fuel Efficiency

Fleet Advantage Builds Clean Diesel Initiative Provides Fleet Lifecyle Cost Management

Fleet Advantage, LLC

This paradigm shift in lifecycle management is also improving driver retention and reducing CO2 emissions.

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Walmart Uses Weather Forecasts To Predict Sales

Walmart has been acting on correlations between weather and store sales on a zip code level with store-level merchandising and hyper-local digital advertising – and achieving big results.

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Whole Foods Market Launches Fresh Food Rating System

The rating system labels fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers as “good,” “better” or “best” to help shoppers make informed choices in the produce and floral departments, and it prohibits some of the most hazardous neurotoxins still allowed in agriculture.

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Supply Chain Visibility

IFDA Conference Report: Subway Improves Data With GS1 ‘Global Language’

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

The Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative is a voluntary, collaborative industry effort seeking to establish a global language of business, introducing standards to help businesses identify, capture and share information.

GS1 standards make whole-chain traceability possible due to the fact that they provide interoperability between existing systems and solutions.

KeHE Distributors Becomes Founding Member Of IX-ONE Data Exchange

IX-ONE is the result of a collaborative effort among industry-leading organizations to provide clean, accurate and standardized product data and images to the trade.

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