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Grocery Retail
February E-Grocery Sales Down 10% Vs. Year Ago
The U.S. online grocery market finished February with total monthly sales of $7.9 billion, down 10.5% compared to 2023, according to the most recent Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopper Survey.
Last-Mile
The Future Outlook of Last-Mile in Grocery
Trucking
Navigating the Food Distribution Landscape
Last-Mile
The Roadmap to Adopting Gig Work Begins with Technology
Grocery Retail
GrazeCart Acquisition Expands D2C E-Commerce Technology for Farm-to-Fork Suppliers
Grocery Retail
How to Make Shipping to Grocery Warehouses and Distribution Centers a Success
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3PL/4PL
Nominations Open for 2024 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Award
3PLs and cold storage providers remain a key puzzle piece to building and nurturing partnerships, cultivating resilience and helping companies in the cold food space overcome supply chain disruptions. Submissions close March 22.
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Supply Chain Visibility
Rock Stars of the Supply Chain: Disrupting Supply Chain Disruptions
Supply chain rock stars are the backbone of the cold food chain. Meet the winner's of this year's Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.
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Grocery Retail
U.S. E-Grocery Sales Up 2% Vs. Year Ago
Ship-to-home was the only segment to grow year-over-year as sales climbed to $1.5 billion in January, up 7.8% compared to a year ago.
Grocery Retail
3 Tips for Food Manufacturers to Better Serve Retailers
Here are three actionable tips food logistics and supply chain professionals can implement to enhance and streamline their supply chain processes.
Grocery Retail
Labor Market, Interest Rates to Play Major Roles in 2024: NRF Economist
After a better-than-expected performance in 2023, what happens with the economy in 2024 could depend largely on the labor market and what the Federal Reserve does with interest rates.
Material Handling Equipment
Ryder Acquires Cardinal Logistics
Ryder System, Inc. acquired Cardinal Logistics, enabling growth and further strengthening Ryder’s position as a customized dedicated contract carrier in North America.
Supply Chain Visibility
Why Grocers Need End-to-End Visibility During High-Volume Periods
To maintain effective food safety practices during surge periods, grocers must implement processes supported by solution-based technologies that optimize food safety operations and equipment performance.
Grocery Retail
Phononic, ShopRite Launch Freezer and Refrigerator Totes for Curbside Grocery Pickup and Delivery
The tote size and portability allowed a 70% reduction in staging room requirements with no impact on order volume.
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Transfer Loads From One Pallet Type to Another
Columbia's Load Transfer Stations (LTS) optimize your facility's lift truck productivity, reduce labor and shipping costs and help reduce contamination from entering production areas.
Air Cargo
Wing Expands Fleet of Drones
Wing announced plans to introduce an additional aircraft into its fleet of drones that will simplify and streamline larger orders.
Grocery Retail
How Grocers Can Keep Winning the Food Fight in 2024
Here are 4 factors grocers should focus on in 2024 to maintain a successful digital transformation amid shifting consumer preferences and an evolving industry landscape.
Robotics
Store Intelligence Solution to Support Large Grocery Retailers
Simbe released a Store Intelligence solution for large format retail environments, focusing on packaged goods, meat, dairy, frozen and more.
Grocery Retail
Navigating the Future of Grocery Retail: Strategies for Agility and Success in 2024
Here are some key strategies that grocery retailers can employ to enhance agility in their operations and better position themselves to respond to current challenges.
Grocery Retail
Relationshop Merger to Create Connected Commerce Ecosystem for Grocery Retailers
Relationshop finalized a merger between Mercatus Technologies and Stor.ai. The newly merged company will be called Mercatus, and will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Relationshop Inc.
Cold Storage
Kenco Acquires Shippers Group, Expands Warehousing Footprint
Kenco acquired The Shippers Group, a third-party warehousing company, providing increased capacity, broader geographic reach, and an expanded suite of services.
Supply Chain Visibility
Food and Beverage Outlook 2024: Shifting from Growth to Profitability
Here’s what F&B companies should watch out for in 2024, as well as what they should focus on to succeed for years to come.
Grocery Retail
In-Transit Visibility, SKU Proliferation Drive Demand in F&B Supply Chain
In an exclusive interview with Food Logistics, Chris Pickett, COO, Flock Freight, talks about how in-transit visibility, faster product lifecycles and SKU proliferation will continue to drive growth in the cold food chain come the New Year.
Grocery Retail
Phantom Inventory is Plaguing the Grocery Landscape. Here’s How to Fix it.
To fix phantom inventory, food retailers need a better understanding of the accuracy of their inventory levels, complete with insights into how and why their stated inventory is failing to keep up with consumer demand.
Grocery Retail
Consumers Expected to Spend Less on Groceries, CPG Goods in 2024: Study
Financial difficulties will lead EMEA consumers to shop less frequently and spend more cautiously across various non-essential retail and leisure categories in 2024.
Cold Chain
Are Logistics Solutions for Perishable Products Time Bound?
With careful groundwork and effective management, food brands can improve transportation of perishable items and guarantee high-quality products to satisfy their customers’ demands.
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Delegate your B2B integration to a market leader to simplify your exchanges
Cloud-based SaaS EDI allows the enterprise to focus on their core operations to focus on what matters most. Generix EDI SaaS supports all forms of electronic exchanges, connecting you to your wider ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and partners.
Last-Mile
Last-Mile Delivery Platform Acquired by Private Equity Firm
SRT Group, parent company of Stuart, was acquired by Mutares from Geopost.
Software Solutions
Transparent Platform Helps Grocery Retailers Buy, Sell Manufacturing Capacity
Keychain released Crossroad, a transparent platform designed to empower brands and retailers to view both the availability and pricing of manufacturing line time in the CPG industry.
Grocery Retail
Online Sales at Regional Grocers Down 13.5% vs. Year Ago
Composite-level sales across 25 U.S. grocery banners dropped 13.5% during a 12-week period ending Sept. 20 vs. the same period last year, according to a report from Brick Meets Click and sponsored by Mercatus.
Grocery Retail
Brick-and-Mortar Businesses Lost $1M in Revenue Last Year
Companies with physical locations lost $867,634 in revenue on average in the last year as a result of rising costs, economic instability, labor issues, supply chain disruptions, and operational inefficiencies, according to new research from Motive.
Automation
Warehouse Automation Market to Return to Full Growth in 2024
Warehouse automation order intake will begin to grow again in 2024 after the market suffered a tough 2023, albeit at a low rate, according to research from Interact Analysis.
AI/AR
Food Retailing Gets a Tech Boost Heading into the Holiday Season
Here are a few critical trends that successful retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers must address now or risk having to play catchup later.
Design-Build
4 Ways to Plan for an Automation Retrofit
For food and beverage users seeking to stay ahead of the curve, here are four pivotal areas to focus on when preparing for an automation retrofit.
Trucking
Plus, IVECO, dm-drogerie markt and DSV Launch Automated Trucking Pilot in Germany
An IVECO heavy duty truck integrated with Plus’s AI-based, driver-supervised highly automated driving software will operate on a DSV route to transport dm-drogerie markt products in Germany’s Baden-Württemberg-Hessen region.
Cold Storage
Actively-Cooled and Automated BOPIS Fulfillment Solution for Grocers
This carousel combines Phononic’s actively-cooled refrigerator and freezer totes with Vidir’s vertical lift system, enabling grocers to stage frozen, chilled and ambient orders in one central location.
AI/AR
Zone Monitoring to Manage Inventory for Retailers
Standard Zones is said to be the first platform to leverage advanced visual AI in the most profitable sectors of convenience retail.
Grocery Retail
Top 5 Consumer Trends in 2024
Consumers have accepted the inevitability of uncertainty and have adopted a day-to-day focus, striving to protect their physical and emotional wellness.