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Walmart Canada Offers Personalized Training To 5,000 Supply Chain Workers

There’s lots of potential danger in supply chain operations: work at distribution centers involves using heavy equipment to pick, pack and move products at an extremely fast pace. Walmart’s U.S.…

Features August 26

The Vitamin Shoppe Debuts Nationwide Same-Day Delivery

The Vitamin Shoppe has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery across the U.S. Delivery times for orders picked from the 720 The Vitamin Shoppe and Super Supplements stores could…

News August 25

Lidl Plans To Boost U.S. Store Count 50% By 2021

Lidl will invest more than $500 million and create approximately 2,000 new jobs as it opens 50 stores in the Eastern U.S. by the end of 2021. With this expansion, the…

News August 25

Podcast: Brian Solis Breaks Down New Rules For The Novel Economy

When he began his tenure as Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce in March 2020, Brian Solis had no idea a global pandemic would completely change everything we once knew to be true about…

Executive Viewpoints August 25

DoorDash Adds Meijer, Smart & Final And Hy-Vee As Supermarket Partners

DoorDash, best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer, Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final, with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes/D’Agostino…

News August 25

Retail Lessons From China: Innovation, Resilience And Recovery

Non-essential retailers around the world have been devastated by COVID-19, with many experiencing everything from store closures to unprecedented drops in sales. To withstand the crisis, many retailers adopted new…

Executive Viewpoints August 25

Amazon Consumer Retail Chief Will Step Down In Early 2021

Jeff Wilke, who began at Amazon in 1999, will leave his position as CEO of the Worldwide Consumer unit in Q1 2021. He will be succeeded by current SVP Worldwide…

News August 24

BJ’s Now Offering Curbside Pickup At All 219 Clubs

BJ’s Wholesale Club is now offering contactless curbside pickup for members at all 219 clubs, after testing the service on a limited basis earlier this year. “Our new, contactless curbside…

News August 24

How Agile Sourcing Kept Ahold Supply Chains Moving When COVID Struck

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the U.S., everyone saw its immediate impact on supermarket supply chains: shelves emptied by consumers frantically stockpiling toilet paper, cleaning products and shelf-stable staples…

Features August 24
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