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 1, 2023 | Business, E-Commerce, Grocery, Leadership, Logistics, Retail, Supply Chains
Walgreens Boots Alliance said Friday that Roz Brewer had stepped down as the company’s chief executive as it leans deeper into its strategy to become a health care company instead of a drug store, according to a CNBC article. “Our Board and leadership team will...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 10, 2023 | Articles, Forbes, Supply Chains
GETTY 2022 was the year of supply chain disruption. 2022 was also the year that many people first became aware of the topic of supply chain management. Books and magazine articles were written about supply chain management, and news programs presented...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 4, 2023 | Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Supply Chains, Trucking
Tesla has only delivered a limited number of its electric semi trucks, and most of them are in operation in PepsiCo’s fleet – primarily in its Sacramento facility, which has been completely electrified and is solar-powered. Tesla’s semi truck has a list price of...
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...
