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Featured In Food Logistics: Voice Recognition Expands Beyond Order Picking

Since order picking can account for 40 to 60 percent of the labor in a food or beverage warehouse, this benefit remains a driving force for voice automation.

Wireless devices and Bluetooth headsets enable hands-free operation at Nature’s Way Products Inc. with step-by-step picking instructions to guide orders to completion. The company uses Knighted’s Datria voice solution.

Greek Crisis Fuels Oil Price Fall

The “no” vote has created turmoil across the globe, and oil prices have crashed to their lowest levels in months.

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Ports And Truckers Face Chassis Shortage

Finding a free chassis – little more than a steel frame with wheels - can take hours, making them a top source of port congestion because containers can’t be transferred from a ship to a truck without them, truck drivers say.

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Pet Food Maker Stella & Chewy's Recalls Products Over Listeria

Stella & Chewy’s was notified by the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) that it issued a stop sale order on a single lot of Chewy’s Chicken Freeze-Dried Dinner Patties for Dogs, 15 oz. bags because MDA detected Listeria in the product.

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International Logistics Firm Kuehne + Nagel To Acquire ReTrans Inc.

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The acquisition builds on Kuehne + Nagel’s overland strategy and will significantly strengthen the company’s position as an end-to-end logistics provider in North America.

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7-Eleven Launches Home Delivery, Partners With Postmates

An assortment of 7‑Eleven’s products from hot foods and snacks to cold beverages and other convenience items is just a few taps away and will be delivered by Postmates to customers from select stores in San Francisco and Oakland in an hour or less.

Whole Foods Market Apologizes For Overcharging Of Mislabeled Products

Whole Foods Market co-CEOs Walter Robb and John Mackey, in a video released online, acknowledged that customers were charged incorrect prices for some of their products, put the blame on some employees and apologized, according to The Washington Post.

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JBS USA To Acquire Cargill's Pork Business For $1.45 Billion

Included in JBS’ acquisition of Cargill’s pork business are two Midwest meat processing plants, five feed mills and four hog farms.

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Weights and Pricing: A Message to Our Customers - Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market admits to overcharging customers in New York City and talks about the steps they are taking to fix their pricing issues.

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Kraft Shareholders Approve Merger With Heinz

The transaction will create the third-largest food and beverage company in North America, and the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.

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ConAgra Foods Inc. To Exit Private Label

ConAgra bought Ralcorp in 2013 to become the biggest maker of U.S. private label foods, but the business has been plagued with problems ranging from customer service issues to pricing concessions, with sales falling nearly six percent in two years.

ConAgra Chief Executive Sean Connolly said on the company's earnings call on Tuesday it was clear trying to turn around the private label business was draining resources and that the segment would likely attract significant interest from potential buyers.

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Worker Visa Delays Cost U.S. Farmers Millions

The problem with the U.S. visa system began on June 9, and the U.S. had been able to issue only a relatively small number of visas to those affected by the outage, including seasonal and humanitarian workers.

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