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Amazon to Open LA Grocery Store by Year End

The e-commerce giant reportedly plans to open dozens of grocery stores across the country as it expands its footprint in the food business.

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Marks & Spencer Partner with Ocado for Joint Venture

The deal is structured as a joint venture to avoid legal complications with Ocado's other supermarket partners.

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Lineage Logistics Acquires Rival Preferred Freezer Services

The tie-up between the two companies will hold more cubic feet of cold storage space than top industry player Americold.

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McLane Announces the Opening of a New Grocery Distribution Center in Ocala, FL

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The 400,000 square foot facility will house 165,000 square feet of dry grocery, nearly 200,000 square feet of perishables and 35,000 square feet of office and support space.

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Kroger and Ocado Announce Two New Sites for High-Tech Fulfillment Centers

Kroger and Ocado have named Central Florida and Mid-Atlantic as new regions for the companies' next two customer fulfillment centers.

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Aldi Utilizes Abandoned Retail Stores for Cold Storage

Aldi is looking into vacant retail spaces to transform them into new cold-storage warehouses.

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Emerging Technologies

Consumers Can Soon Scan Food With Their Phones to Determine Freshness

Soon, consumers will be able to use their smartphones to analyze nutritional content, ingredients and freshness of their food in the grocery store.

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Labor’s Impact on Lift Truck Innovation

How the warehousing sector's labor challenges are driving trends and innovation in the lift truck.

Crown Equipment's QuickPick remote order picking technology allows an operator to move the lift truck forward via a remote control while they pick and pack the pallet.

Supervalu Closes Three Distribution Centers, Cuts Hundreds of Jobs

Supervalu chief executive Sean Griffin sent a letter to employees informing them of the closures and that it will build a new center in Centralia and add 500,000 square feet to an existing facility in Ridgefield.

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Robots: Friend or Foe?

With robots and AI-driven machines expected to perform half of all productive functions in the workplace by 2025, it’s no wonder the industry is raising legitimate concerns.

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Automation Alleviates Labor Pain

The pressure is on warehouse operators to adopt automation not only for greater efficiencies but to simply survive in the market.

As package types evolve, robotics provides the flexibility to adjust to future package varieties.

WMS and the Digital Transformation of the Warehouse

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Industry pressures have forced many warehouse managers to reassess their operations—beginning with their WMS.

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