The New York TimesMore from The New York TimesSales & Operations PlanningNordstrom Is Opening a New York Store as Other Retailers Close TheirsThe Nordstrom family has run stores for more than a century, first selling shoes in the Pacific Northwest and later introducing fashion-forward clothing to wealthy suburbanites across the country.April 11, 2018All LogisticsIs Amazon Bad for the Postal Service? Or Its Savior?Five times in the last week, President Trump has pointed his Twitter arrows at Amazon over what he insists is a bad deal for the United States Postal Service.April 9, 2018Global Supply Chain ManagementFor Tesla, 'Production Hell' Looks Like the Reality of the Car BusinessTesla began producing electric cars at its plant in Fremont, Calif., six years ago, starting with small quantities and ramping up to about 100,000 vehicles last year. Now, as it tries to double or triple that number, the company and its chief executive, Elon Musk, are getting a lesson in how hard it is to mass-produce automobiles.April 5, 2018RetailRetailers Race Against Amazon to Automate StoresTo see what it’s like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer’s experimental convenience shop in downtown Seattle.April 3, 2018Global Supply Chain ManagementTrump’s Tariffs Trigger Global Chain Reaction to Halt ImportsThe Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs are provoking a chain reaction around the globe, as governments from Europe to Canada prepare to erect barriers to prevent cheap metal once bound for the United States from entering their markets.March 29, 2018AutomotiveGrocery Wars Turn Small Chains Into Battlefield CasualtiesAt the Tops Market on Main Street in Chestertown, NY, there’s a "Mega Meat Sale" — buy one pork chop and get another free.March 27, 2018Business Strategy AlignmentAlibaba Doubles Lazada Investment to $4Bn in Aggressive Southeast Asian ExpansionAlibaba Group Holding Ltd said it will invest an extra $2bn in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group and tapped a top executive to run the business, as it takes on rivals such as tech titan Amazon in an aggressive expansion in the region.March 23, 2018Transportation ManagementHow Driverless Cars See the World Around ThemOn Sunday night, a woman died after she was hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber in Tempe, Ariz. The car was operating autonomously, though a safety driver was behind the wheel, according to a statement from the local police.March 21, 2018Global Supply Chain ManagementTrump Condemns Chinese Factories. China Is Already Closing Some.Li Jinzi’s apartment lost its heat when the kilns went cold. Li works at a Chinese aluminum factory, the sort of hulking industrial installation that has helped set off a global trade fight.March 19, 2018Global Trade ManagementMost of America’s Fruit Is Now Imported. Is That a Bad Thing?It’s obvious to anyone who visits an American supermarket in winter — past displays brimming with Chilean grapes, Mexican berries and Vietnamese dragon fruit — that foreign farms supply much of our produce.March 15, 2018Previous PagePage 6 of 28Next Page