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McDonald's Quest for Specialty Eggs Cuts Cage-Free Prices for All

McDonald’s mission to use only cage-free eggs is rippling across the market.

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Millennials Rekindle Demand for Plants, an Industry Ripe for Disruption

American millennials have been accused of dooming all sorts of things: beer, golf, cereal. But the cohort is credited with reviving the once-moribund market for houseplants.

House plants hang in a window. Photo: Shutterstock.

Africa's Amazon Is Growing Fast as Online Retail Takes Off

Often tagged as Africa’s Amazon.com, Jumia Technologies has been able to grow in markets largely untapped by the U.S. heavyweight, which is hampered by a lack of distribution infrastructure on the continent.

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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.

Singapore's Biggest Online Mall Fights Alibaba With Blockchain

In the last decade, Ku Young Bae — a serial entrepreneur and South Korean transplant — has built Singapore’s biggest e-commerce company and fended off giant rivals like Alibaba, Amazon and Tencent.

Source: Bloomberg

Goodwill Wants to Take New Orders Right Out of Amazon's Hands

Goodwill is setting its sights on a formidable rival for a charity thrift store: Amazon.

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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

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.

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