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Starbucks Tests Home Delivery In Seattle With Postmates

Starbucks is collaborating with leading on-demand delivery service Postmates for a pilot program, where customers can have Starbucks food or beverages delivered to them within designated areas in Seattle.

Starbucks has partnered with Postmates to deliver food and beverages to customers in Seattle, Wash.

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Dearborn Mid-West Company Acquires W&H Systems Inc.

The combined organizations will continue to deliver the design, integration, installation and support of material handling systems with focus on the wine & spirits, e-commerce, retail, industrial, and food/beverage industries.

Congress Reaches Accord On $305 Billion Highway Bill

The resulting 1,300-page bill, paid for with gas tax revenue and a package of $70 billion in offsets from other areas of the federal budget, comes just days before transportation spending is set to expire on Dec. 4.

Lawmakers in both chambers have said the temporary patch will provide time for them to finish work on a long-sought multiyear highway funding bill.

Target Extends Instacart Delivery Service To Chicago

Customers in Chicago can now order fresh food and grocery, health and beauty products, pet and household supplies, and baby items from Target and have them delivered straight to their doorstep in as little as one hour.

Lawmakers Near Deal On Highway Transportation Funding

The multi-year highway bill that lawmakers are driving to finish work on would be the first transportation funding legislation to last longer than two years since 2005.

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Bankruptcy Court Allows 47 Haggen Stores To Be Sold; Albertson Readies IPO

The announcement by the bankrupt grocer listed the locations of 47 stores sold to a variety of buyers, including Albertsons LLC, Stater Bros. Market, Sprouts Farmers Market, Smart & Final Stores LLC, Yoke’s Foods Inc., Tawa Inc., and others.

The FTC allowed the small Pacific Northwest supermarket operator Haggen Holdings LLC to buy most of the stores following the Albertsons-Safeway merger, and Haggen quickly ballooned to 164 locations throughout the West from 18 in Washington and Oregon.

A Fearless Future: How to protect your supply chain

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Is Amazon Developing Its Own Air Freight Service?

Media reports have emerged that Amazon is taking steps to operate its own freight service to compete with the likes of FedEx and UPS, with tests taking place out of the large air park in Wilmington. Ohio

FTC Approves FedEx/TNT Express Merger

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Global Food Logistics Market To Grow 8.74% Yearly Through 2019

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Pinnacle Foods Inc. To Acquire Boulder Brands Inc. To Boost Wellness Categories

The Boulder Brands portfolio is sold in both traditional and natural and organic channels in the U.S., with a consumer base that skews younger than that of Pinnacle’s current portfolio average.

The transaction also expands Pinnacle’s presence in the natural and organic retail channel and provides Pinnacle with a new growth platform in refrigerated foods.

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