Brittain Ladd

This is Why Logistics and Velocity Matter

by Brittain Ladd | Aug 1, 2023 | Delivery, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media, Supply Chains

Amazon has announced that it has already delivered 1.8B packages to U.S. Prime members the same or next day, roughly four times what it delivered at those speeds by this point in 2019. For comparison, UPS delivered 24.3M packages per day in 2022 for a total of 6.2B...

Killing Twitter

by Brittain Ladd | Jul 11, 2023 | E-Commerce, Marketing, No Retreat, No Surrender, Social Media

For those of you who don’t follow Linette Lopez, I encourage you to do so. The articles she writes for Insider always have a degree of bared fangs and sharp claws mingled with humor and facts. This article reinforces much of what I wrote would happen to Twitter in...

Rise of the Robots: Figure Unveils their Humanoid Robot for Use Across Supply Chains

by Brittain Ladd | Apr 28, 2023 | AI, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Robotics, Social Media, Supply Chains

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure, regarding the company’s vision for robots. Brett is also the founder of Archer, an aviation company, and Vettery, a hiring marketplace. Figure recently came out of stealth mode...

This is How Amazon Wins the Grocery War

by Brittain Ladd | Apr 15, 2023 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media

I appreciate the fact that my posts and articles are read and shared across Amazon. Thank you to everyone at Amazon who shares six-pagers, photos and diagrams of store mockups, and other information related to Amazon’s grocery strategy. I enjoy our...

This is the Reason Why Elon Musk has Launched his Own AI Company

by Brittain Ladd | Apr 14, 2023 | AI, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media

Elon Musk, Founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and who acquired Twitter in 2022 for $40B, is launching his own AI company called X.AI Corporation. Musk has brought on Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind employee, to lead the efforts. I’ve been expecting Musk to...

Will Walmart Acquire TikTok?

by Brittain Ladd | Apr 5, 2023 | No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media

Walmart held its annual investor meeting today where the company said that by the end of fiscal year 2026, it aims to have 65% of its stores be serviced by automation, approximately 55% of the fulfillment center volume to move through automated facilities, and as a...