When is a parking garage not a parking garage? During the busy holiday shipping season, the answer is, “when it’s …
E-Commerce Companies Get Creative in Quest for “Last Mile” Space
04 Monday Feb 2019
UPS’s Christmas Wish: A Delivery Surge It Can Handle
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
Posted in Chapter 10: Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
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Although the challenge happens nearly every year, it just keeps getting bigger: How can delivery services handle the massive increase …
Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line
25 Friday Jan 2019
Shoppers might prefer to order bulky, heavy household products (e.g., cans of soup, bottled beverages) to be delivered, so that …
Amazon and Whole Foods After a Year: Supermarkets Will See Massive Changes
23 Wednesday Jan 2019
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It’s a million-dollar—or more accurately, a 13 billion-dollar—question: Why did Amazon buy Whole Foods? Even casual observers note that there …
Are Retailers Getting Over Their SKU Management Hurdles?
17 Thursday Jan 2019
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Sales performance is a clear-cut, informative, and easily measurable criterion that retailers can use to decide which brands and products …
How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever
08 Tuesday Jan 2019
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Grasping and placing. Those are two rather basic tasks for humans, who constantly and unthinkingly pick up items and move …
TidBit: A Tab Based on Trust? I’ll Drink to That
26 Wednesday Dec 2018
Several of the greatest retail challenges—dealing with theft, finding good employees—might be addressed by one philosophical concept: the honor system. …
Sears Seeks to Repair Fraying Supply Chain in Bankruptcy
21 Friday Dec 2018
What happens when one member of a vast supply chain gets in trouble? Do the other members respond with assistance …
Will Amazon Disrupt Retail Again with Its New 4-Star Concept?
17 Monday Dec 2018
In expanding its omnichannel strategy, Amazon keeps experimenting with various iterations of brick-and-mortar locations, testing out grocery concepts, book stores, …
TidBit: Walmart and Advance Auto Parts Join Forces Online
12 Wednesday Dec 2018
Posted in Chapter 13: Buying Merchandise, Retail Tidbits
Walmart wants to make a little of everything available for everyone. Continuing its trend of featuring dedicated, virtually separated stores …