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Software & Technology

Report: Out-Of-Stocks And Overstocks Surging As E-Commerce Grows

According to a study commissioned by DynamicAction and conducted by IHL Group, "out-of-stocks" accounted for $634.1 billion in lost retail sales for the year ended in the spring — 39 percent higher than in 2012.

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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.

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

Waste Reduction

U.K. Petitioners Call On Retailers And Suppliers To Reduce Food Waste

Petitioners for a reduction in food waste demonstrated in front of Tesco and Sansbury headquarters recently/

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Risk/Compliance

Tesco: All Global Supply Chains Use Slave Labor

Campaigners say forced labor often lurks along the supply chain with multiple suppliers in many different countries involved in manufacturing, packaging and distributing products.

Nestle Admits Forced Labor Used In Thai Seafood Operations

Nestlé SA launched the investigation in December 2014, after reports from news outlets and nongovernmental organizations tied brutal and largely unregulated working conditions to their shrimp, prawn and Purina-brand pet foods.

In this April 20, 2015, photo, former fishing slaves who were rescued from Indonesia’s remote island village of Benjina gather at a temporary government-run shelter on the island of Tual, Indonesia. Hundreds of men remain unaccounted for and are believed to be fishing in Papua New Guinea.

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.

E-Commerce Solutions

E-Commerce Gives Online Shipping Carriers An Edge As Holidays Approach; Railroads, Ocean Vessels And Truckers Sales Fall

Physical retailers are sitting on near record-high inventories as consumer spending hasn’t yet caught up with hopes of a surge stoked by low gasoline prices.

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Highway Bill Amendment Halt Trucker Lawsuits Against Walmart, J.B. Hunt And Others

Congress is debating a highway bill amendment that would put the brakes on a legal fight between some of the nation’s biggest trucking companies and their drivers over back pay.

The amendment, proposed by Rep. Jeff Denham (R., Calif.) would bar states from applying rules that go beyond federal standards for driver pay.

Software Solutions

Automated Imaging Improves Food Logistics For Supermarket

Framos GmbH provides an insight into the benefits imaging can provide to all retail and mail order sectors as optimizing logistics is essential to lower costs, increase throughput and increase reliability.

Framos GmbH, a global imaging provider based in Taufkirchen, Germany, installed solutions at various processing stations, using traditional imaging processing, self-learning algorithms and classifiers to ensure robust and smooth operation. For example this enables the systems in the “empty containers center,” to recognize different container types and select the correct process path.

Venture Group Launches Largest Food/Ag Fund, To Include Logistics

Areas of interest for S2G include soil health and sustainable land management; food logistics, including storage, distribution and transportation; and controlled-environment growing platforms and brands.

S2G, which is believed to be the largest fund for food and agriculture in the U.S., says its goal is 'to empower world-class entrepreneurs providing the healthy food consumers want.'

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