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Micro-Fulfillment

Woolworths To Add More 'Dark Supermarkets' To Support Rising E-Commerce

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)

In August Woolworths opened its first dark supermarket in Australia — an Internet distribution center in Mascot, Sydney, and is now considering opening ones in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Refrigerated Logistics Gets Hot

Supply Chain Services

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Meet The Staff At McCook Cold Storage

McCook Cold Storage

Meet The Staff At McCook Cold Storage

Teamsters Cite Foodservice Distributors' Safety Violations

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

As the FTC continues its antitrust review of Sysco's proposed merger with US Foods, smaller regional competitors like PFG, Reinhart Foodservice and other distributors have been the focus of news reports as potential divestiture buyers.

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Gordon Food Service Acquires Halperns’ Steak And Seafood Co.

Gordon Food Service

GFS, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based broadline foodservice distributor, has acquired Halperns’ Steak and Seafood Co., an Atlanta, Ga.-based distributor of meats and seafood.

Dunkin’ Donuts Signs Record Expansion Agreement In China

Dunkin' Donuts LLC

Dunkin’ Donuts announces plans to open and operate more than 1,400 Dunkin' Donuts restaurants across China over the next 20 years.

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U.S. Lifts Ban On Irish Beef

The U.S. had agreed to lift the ban last year, and Ireland is the first European country since then to have met the requirements ensuring its beef was safe.

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Strike Threatens Chilean Fruit Exports

Members of the Maritime Port Workers’ Federation of Costanera Espigón (Fetraportces) in Chile began their latest indefinite walkout on Saturday after failing to reach an agreement with port managers over shift patterns.

This photo is from the last union strike in January of 2014 in the Chilean Port of San Antonio. Leaders from Asoex and Fedefruta are asking the union to honor commitments made in October that they would not impede fruit from being loaded at the Port.

Listeria Outbreak Linked To Caramel Apples Claims Six Lives

A total of 32 people infected with the outbreak strains of Listeria have been reported from 11 U.S. states: Arizona, California, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas , Utah, Washington and Wisconsin and two cases in Canada.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Zepol Report Examines Transatlantic Trade Pact, Russia Tensions And More

Zepol Corporation

The highly sought-after report shows broad-level statistics, but also delves into U.S. trade with Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia and the Ukraine.

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Rising Oil Prices Hammer Gulf Logistics Industry

While the oil price slump could deliver cost relief for the logistics industry, any negative impact on the economic growth of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE) could spell trouble for the sector in 2015.

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Voice Recognition Expands Beyond Order Picking

Voice technology can manage replenishment, transfers, cycle-counting, receiving and more in a warehouse.

The TekSpeech Pro from Motorola Solutions offers speaker independent voice recognition and requires no speaker training for easy and fast deployment.s

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