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Solving the Problems of Same-Day Delivery

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Taking Amazon Prime Head On, Walmart Offers Two-Day Online Sales Delivery

In answer to Amazon's Prime Service, Walmart has cut the delivery time of its ShippingPass e-commerce subscription program to two days rather than three.

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Amazon to Prepare - and Deliver - Food to Your Door

Amazon is partnering with Tyson Foods to launch a meal kit delivery service in the fall as part of AmazonFresh.

Amazon's Latest Hat: A Freight Forwarder From China

Is there any aspect of the e-commerce buying experience that Amazon.com Inc. doesn't want to directly control?

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Robots May Conquer E-Commerce's Problematic Last Mile

In the shadow of Greenwich's 02 Arena - the futuristic dome originally built as London’s showpiece for the Millennium - what looks like a picnic cooler on wheels zips among groups of gawking children. This little delivery robot, designed to autonomously navigate sidewalks, not roads, later this year will begin making deliveries from local businesses direct to customers. In doing so, it may just conquer e-commerce's final frontier: the Last Mile, the least efficient and most problematic step in the delivery process.

Metro Supply Chain Group Acquires Evolution Time Critical

Metro Supply Chain Group, a Canadian-owned third-party logistics provider serving North America, has acquired Evolution Time Critical, a European specialist in emergency logistics for automotive and industrial services.

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Air Amazon? E-Tailer Could Buy German Airport.

Amazon has explored buying an airport in western Germany, according to a German media report, a move that could further build out the retail giant's plan of operating its own fleet of delivery airplanes.

Purolator Launches Long Island Supply Chain Index

Purolator International has launched its first Long Island Supply Chain Index, a quarterly survey of Long Island, N.Y. manufacturers' business forecasts for the six months ahead.

Hermes Expands Retail E-Commerce Tools to U.S. Market

Hermes, operator of a business-to-consumer (B2C) parcel shop network in Europe, has expanded its retail supply-chain digital services to the U.S. electronic-commerce market.

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Physical Stores Are Alive, But Are They All That Well?

Brick-and-mortar shopping isn't dead, but it is certainly on the decline: just 57 percent of urban consumers said they preferred to make discretionary purchases in stores, while 39 percent claim their last such purchase was made online.

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ShipHawk Offers Platform for Parcel Shipping, Self-Service

ShipHawk, a provider of applications for shipping intelligence, has launched a new suite of products to support parcel, freight and home delivery by retailers of all sizes.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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