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Walmart Puts Reusable Bags at Store Checkouts to Reduce Plastic

Walmart will offer reusable shopping totes at the checkout counters of all its U.S. stores for the first time as the world’s largest retailer starts to move away from the use of plastic bags.

Shoppers purchase items at a Walmart Inc. store. Photo: Shutterstock.

Gen Z: The Kids Corporate America Just Can't Afford to Ignore

This is the year Gen Z takes over, and fusty companies that want to sell them stuff have to crack the kids’ code.

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Amazon Go Faces Unlikely Challenge From Checkout-Free Startup

Grocers, alarmed at Amazon’s rapid growth in Europe, are considering fighting back with the help of a tiny Portuguese startup.

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Accurate Classifications Eliminate Demurrage Costs for Furniture Importer

Challenge: A U.S. furniture importer with over 100 shipments per month from China experienced costly demurrage and delays due to untimely entry filings. Lengthy and complex invoices made it difficult to determine whether the goods — which included bed parts and other furniture components — should be classified as individual parts, complete beds or other complete furniture items. These time-consuming entries resulted in late filings, and the delays put the company at risk for chargebacks from big-box retailers.

Predict Transportation Costs Using Transfix’s Instant Pricing Tool

Challenge: A shipper’s procurement team, responsible for moving tens of thousands of truckloads per day, was manually aggregating carrier bids — a costly, time-intensive process. The shipper needed a solution that could handle its high volume and manage relationships with several hundred carriers.

Aldi Sets Sustainability Goals as Consumers Call for Less Waste

Aldi is the latest supermarket chain to announce a sustainability push — an effort the company says will help it trim costs and stand out in a crowded field.

Aldi Sets Sustainability Goals as Consumers Call for Less Waste

The Brexit Day That Wasn't Leaves Britain Counting the Cost

For more than two years, the clock ran down toward March 29, the day Prime Minister May pledged Britain would leave the European Union. As the drama rolls on, the costs mount from the Brexit day that wasn’t.

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Amazon to Online Delivery Customers: We’re Out of Celery, How’s Kale?

Companies offering online grocery ordering and delivery are struggling with services’ logistics.

A shopper carries a basket of groceries in a supermarket. Photo: Shutterstock.

U.S. and China Got Into a Trade War, and Mexico Won

Mexico’s bonanza underscores the difficulty in trying to win a trade war where companies can shift production or find new sources to avoid tariffs.

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True Value Launches $150M Investment in Supply-Chain Improvements

A big new distribution center in Pennsylvania for True Value Co. is just one part of an ambitious investment to optimize and overhaul the hardware wholesaler’s entire supply chain.

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How Maxwell House, Jell-O and Other Kraft Heinz Names Lost Touch

Years before last month's jaw-dropping $15.4bn writedown, the company had been on a mission to make over some of its quintessential products, removing maligned ingredients to better compete with newer, more natural upstarts.

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Indonesia Threatens to Ban European Goods as Palm Row Escalates

Indonesia threatened to ban imports of goods from the European Union in retaliation for the bloc’s move to impose stricter limits on how palm oil can be used in green fuels.

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