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US Retail Sales Miss Forecasts

Material Handling and Logistics

retail sales rose less than forecast in September, as a broad-based increase was overshadowed by a drop in restaurant receipts that may reflect the impact of Hurricane Florence. Estimates for overall retail sales in the Bloomberg survey ranged from gains of 0.3% Purchases in the non-store category, which includes online shops, rose 1.1%

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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the annual survey released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, consumers plan to spend a collective $24 billion on Easter this year, up from $20.8 Spending is growing across several categories, and the top Easter items consumers say they are planning to purchase include candy ($3.3

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30 Warehouse Automation Companies [Names, Locations, Offerings]

Conger

Visit Bastian Solutions's Website Dematic Founded in 1819, Dematic is the world’s largest warehouse automation. Visit Dematic's Website Honeywell Intelligrated Founded in 1959, Honeywell Intelligrated is a business unit of Honeywell’s Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) segment. Lee Partners.

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Vertical Farming: The Next Level of Produce

Blue Grace Logistics

This created an obvious concern for increasing prices in consumers and retailers alike, both of which are bracing themselves for further price increases as food production struggles with a myriad of issues, ranging from plant closures to the loss of farm labor. Beef, in particular, has seen a massive up jump at 10.8 At 25,000 sq.-ft

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How Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Survive in the Age of Amazon

Supply Chain Brain

The list of old-line retailers that are struggling to survive, or have already given up the ghost, seems to get longer every day: Sears Holdings , J.C. Or, for that matter, against discount-oriented retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target.) So why can’t these venerable names thrive in the age of omnichannel retailing?

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

In fact, we are introducing our newest blog category so you may easily read all supplier quality management type posts here. . Further narrowing things down, these costs come from two main categories: cost of good quality and cost of poor quality. The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

We now have an entire category of blog posts dedicated to better working with suppliers, analyzing them, and what to look out for in order to get the most value in working with suppliers. If you have visited these Suppliers and reviewed their quality systems, you can talk about Continuous Improvement to improve quality.