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Amazon Is Looking for Larger Whole Foods Stores to Support Delivery Plans

Less than a year after closing its acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon.com Inc. is looking for fresh ways to expand its brick-and-mortar retail network while bolstering the online shopping business.

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Showcase Your Company's Supply Chain Excellence — Three Days to Submit

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and SupplyChainBrain welcome your entries for the 14th Annual Supply Chain Innovation Award (SCIA) competition.

Amazon Gets Patent for Delivery Drones That Can React to Screaming Voices, Flailing Arms

Amazon.com has been granted a new patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a delivery drone that can respond to human gestures.

Here’s How Supply Chain Executives Will Invest During the Next 18 Months

Material Handling & Logistics polled Fortune 1000 and top 100 retailers attending MODEX next month in Atlanta.

Electric Cars May Soon Be Cheaper Than Gas Guzzlers

Electric cars may be cheaper than their petroleum counterparts by 2025 if the cost of lithium-ion batteries continues to fall.

IBM Built a Computer the Size of a Grain of Salt for Logistics Industry

IBM has unveiled what it claims is the world’s smallest computer — the size of a grain of salt. The computer will cost less than $0.10 to manufacture, and is intended for logistics applications.

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Showcase Your Company's Supply Chain Excellence — Final Days to Submit

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and SupplyChainBrain welcome your entries for the 14th Annual Supply Chain Innovation Award (SCIA) competition.

A Sure-Fire Route to Gender Equality? Culture Is the Way, Survey Says

Although there’s no doubt that much progress has been made toward gender equality in the workplace, gender parity is still a long way off. And that’s especially true for one particular segment of the population of working women, the 18 percent who work in majority-male companies.

Robots in the Warehouse: A Progress Report

Is there still a place for humans in the automated warehouse of the future?

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Coca-Cola, U.S. State Dept. to Use Blockchain to Combat Forced Labor

Coca-Cola Co. and the U.S. State Department along with two other companies said last week they are launching a project using blockchain’s digital ledger technology to create a secure registry for workers that will help fight the use of forced labor worldwide.

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Walmart Whistle-Blower Claims Cheating in Race With Amazon

In its race to catch Amazon.com Inc. in online retailing, Walmart Inc. issued misleading e-commerce results and fired an executive who complained the company was breaking the law, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit. Walmart shares fell as much as 2 percent.

Tech's Next Big Wave: Big Data Meets Biology

It began in December, with CVS’s proposed $69bn buyout of insurer Aetna. In January, three more corporate behemoths — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — said they were forming a joint venture aimed at reducing health care costs and improving outcomes for their combined 1 million or so employees.

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