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Can Smaller Grocers Survive the E-Commerce Game?

Attempts in the early dotcom era to sell food and other grocery items over the internet sputtered. But with the coming of COVID-19, everything has changed.

A worker places groceries from an online order into a Peapod delivery bin at a Stop & Shop supermarket. Photo: Bloomberg.

Building the Food Industry’s Resilience Beyond the Pandemic

While no industry was completely immune, the food industry was hit especially hard by the pandemic, which restricted worker movement, forced production facilities to close and brought food distribution to a halt — all while consumer demand fluctuated with little predictability.

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Twelve Post-Pandemic Supply-Chain Trends for 2021

As vaccines roll out more broadly, and countries begin to get the coronavirus under control, attention will turn to the recovery and a return to normal operations. The supply chain will play an integral role in this effort, and will itself emerge in a different shape, with COVID-19 leaving a lasting legacy on many areas of transportation and warehousing.

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Seven Shifts in Retail Logistics to Expect This Year

It’s time for retailers emerging from a shaky peak season to reflect and plan for what’s ahead.

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Digital Cotton and 3-D Garments: The Trends That Will Reshape Fashion in 2021

Companies both in and out of the fashion industry have been content to keep separate their newer digital and traditional analog processes — but the past year has shown us that strategy may no longer be viable.

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Watch: How Will Retailers Manage the New COVID Consumer?

Jeff Orschell, Americas retail leader with EY, discusses the results of the consultancy’s ongoing series of surveys of retail consumer behavior during the coronavirus pandemic.

How Will Retailers Manage the New COVID Consumer?

Robots Eased Pressure on Retailers This Holiday Season

It was a year for robots — as will be 2021.

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Brexit Deal Hands Business a Mix of Relief, Unwanted Change

The U.K. and European Union may have signed a trade deal, but British businesses still face a raft of difficult changes.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: Bloomberg.

‘Covid Guilt’ Ignites U.S. Toy Boom

COVID-19 is setting up the U.S. toy industry for its best Christmas in years — and maybe ever.

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Five Ways to Prepare for the Deluge of Holiday Returns

This year's surge in e-commerce will likely come with a flood of returns in January that could strain operations.

Source: Bloomberg

Will Amazon Exit the First-Party Retail Business in 2021?

An industry observer predicts that Amazon.com will make a radical change in its business strategy in the coming year.

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China’s Online Shopping Addiction Is Killing Its Green Packaging Drive

If you worry about all the waste generated by the annual rush of holiday shopping and gift giving, it’s nothing compared to the mountains of discarded packaging that comes from a single event in China.

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