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Is Amazon Looking for a Logistics Partner?

Amazon reportedly spent $11.5 billion on shipping last year and some estimate that if they were to handle fulfillment all by itself it could offer a potential savings of $1.1 billion annually.

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South Idaho Food Hub Looks to Keep Rolling

The area includes operations in food warehousing, and transportation, container and packaging companies.

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Logistics Providers Challenged to Guide Shippers through Rapid Change

Increasingly, shippers are turning to third-party logistics providers for help managing and crunching data.

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Giant Eagle Evolves Supply Chain with Manhattan Associates Transportation Management

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The implementation integrates inbound and outbound transportation systems, consolidating three systems into one.

Symbotic's Robot Systems Can Automate Entire Warehouses

Robots can move goods and arrange them into perfect pallets, tailor-made for the design of the grocery store.

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Online Groceries Retailer FreshDirect Raises $189 Million

FreshDirect is an online food grocer that delivers fresh meat, produce and other specialty items.

Whole Foods Takes a Stake in Delivery Service Instacart

The grocer’s investment in Instacart comes as more consumers buy groceries online for home delivery.

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Are We on the Cusp of the Next GMO Food War?

CRISPR is a genetic engineering technique that allows scientists to easily snip out or add little bits of DNA to a genome.

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Software Solutions

How xAd Wants to Use its Location Technology to Reduce Food Waste

The company encourages using its geo-location technology to help deliver leftover food to aid local food shelters.

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Food Loss and Waste Contributes Greatly to Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming

While some go hungry, one-third of produced food decomposes into greenhouse gases heating up our atmosphere.

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Global IT Spending in Cold Chain Logistics to Grow More than 8 Percent

Technologies include smart refrigerator systems powered by the Internet of Things, analytics and cloud computing.

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Robot Developed by Skype Founders Delivers Food in San Francisco

Starship’s “friendly sidewalk robots” are designed to deliver parcels, groceries and other goods within a 2-mile radius, the company said, operating as a local on-demand service, rather than competing with FedEx and UPS.

Starship Technologies is testing the robots in Europe with commercial partners like London’s Just Eat and Pronto food-delivery companies; the Swiss Post; and Germany’s Hermes delivery service. This month it partnered with Mercedes-Benz to develop and test Robovan, which will use the carmaker’s Sprinter vans as mother ships for eight delivery robots.

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