by Brittain Ladd | Oct 13, 2024 | Articles, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Logistics, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
In The Beginning I joined Amazon in 2014. My first role was designing strategies for Amazon to become a 3PL. I have extensive supply chain and logistics experience. I then transferred into a team focused on designing fulfillment strategies for groceries. To ensure...
by Brittain Ladd | Sep 8, 2024 | Business, Consulting, Consumer Packaged Goods, Freight Forwarding, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Transportation
Every morning, millions of people sit down to eat a bowl of cereal. The process is simple: pour cereal into a bowl, add milk, eat. What isn’t simple, however, is the process for bringing a box of Cheerio’s from the factory to the shelf in the most efficient,...
by Brittain Ladd | Dec 4, 2023 | AI, Business, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Hyperlocal, Innovation, Leadership, Logistics, Manufacturing, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Retailers, Robotics, Strategy, Supply Chains
What you are about to read is my opinion. Beginning in late 2022 and throughout 2023, current and former employees of the grocery micro-fulfillment company, TakeOff, began to reach out to me to provide updates about what’s going on inside the company. I’m...
by Brittain Ladd | Oct 25, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Consulting, Delivery, Economics, Freight Forwarding, Logistics, Strategy, Supply Chains, Transportation, Trucking
Uber Freight, launched in 2016, continues on a mission to disrupt the trucking industry. The $2.25B acquisition of Transplace in 2021 accelerated Uber Freights growth but the company continues to be impacted by changes in the economy that have driven freight volumes...
by Brittain Ladd | Oct 18, 2023 | Business, E-Commerce, Leadership, Management, Retail, Retailers, Social Media
What you are about to read is my opinion. I recently wrote an article about the pharmacy and retail company Walgreens. One of the topics focused on Walgreen’s IT department and their Chief Information Officer Hsiao Wang. Wang’s rude behavior, lack of IT...
