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You Want To Be A Supplier For Whole Foods, Right?

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Whole Foods, for example, has done incredibly well, owing largely to its owner, Amazon. During Amazon’s second quarter of 2020, the retail giant continued to see huge gains overall due to the impact of COVID-19, with online grocery sales alone reaching three times last year’s figures,” reads an article from SupermarketNews. billion.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5