by Brittain Ladd | Jan 6, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Consulting, Consumer Packaged Goods, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Innovation, Leadership, Logistics, Management, Marketing, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Retailers, Robotics, Strategy, Supply Chains
In 2013, executives at Lidl made the decision to enter the U.S. grocery market. Lidl is a German-owned discounter that operates over 12,000 stores located in 31 countries. Lidl competes on price hence the reason why it is referred to as a discounter. Lidl sells around...
by Brittain Ladd | Jan 1, 2025 | AI, Articles, Consumer Packaged Goods, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Logistics, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
This article originally appeared in Forbes. July 8, 2018 Aside from Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, few grocers generated as much press and excitement in 2017 than Lidl’s arrival in the United States. Opening its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia,...
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 | 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 | Sep 24, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Innovation, Logistics, Microfulfillment, Retail, Robotics, Strategy
On January 12, 2021, General Motors announced a new business, BrightDrop, which will offer an ecosystem of electric first-to-last-mile products, software and services to empower delivery and logistics companies to move goods more efficiently. BrightDrop solutions are...
by Brittain Ladd | Sep 14, 2023 | Business, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Microfulfillment, Retail
Whenever I’m asked to name the worst business models I’ve seen, I always say the following: By far, one of the worst business models ever created is online grocery ordering and delivery. On average, grocery retailers lose between $7 to $15 on every online...
