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 | 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 | 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 | Grocery, Microfulfillment, Retail, Social Media, Strategy
Anticipation is growing over Instacart’s IPO. Almost daily, articles appear about Instacart and how there’s hope that the IPO will inspire other companies to go public. The Information writes some of the best articles about Instacart. For example, this is...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 31, 2023 | Business, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Retail, Strategy
Few retailers benefitted more from COVID than Best Buy. When confronted with the fact that restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and other non-essential businesses would be closed, consumers shopped at Best Buy to make purchases of smart TVs, gaming products and other...
