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Amazon’s New Package Strategy will Lead to Big Changes

Amazon’s New Package Strategy will Lead to Big Changes

by Brittain Ladd | Aug 11, 2023 | Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail

One of the biggest challenges faced by retailers who ship packages direct to customers is the need to place the item being shipped into a separate box that often contains packaging material to act as padding. This is especially true for Amazon that has already shipped...
DoorDash will Create ‘X,’ an Everything App, Not Twitter

DoorDash will Create ‘X,’ an Everything App, Not Twitter

by Brittain Ladd | Aug 10, 2023 | Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media

Special thanks to Nancy Luna of Insider for quoting me in this article. Those who frequently read my posts know that I am a fan of DoorDash. In my opinion, DoorDash has one of the best CEOs in business, Tony Xu, and arguably the most capable executive team in the food...
This is Why Logistics and Velocity Matter

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...
Is Automation Inside Rivian Vans the Next Opportunity for Amazon?

Is Automation Inside Rivian Vans the Next Opportunity for Amazon?

by Brittain Ladd | Jul 10, 2023 | Delivery, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Robotics

I’m a fan of Rivian and I especially like their EV vans used by Amazon to make deliveries. I continue to believe that Rivian should create a new company for their van production to make it completely separate from the passenger vehicle business – Rivian...
Amazon’s Blackwater

Amazon’s Blackwater

by Brittain Ladd | May 21, 2023 | AI, Freight Forwarding, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail

According to reports from FreightWaves and other publications, cross-border logistics provider Flexport is developing a truck brokerage business to take care of the domestic transportation leg for imports. The move follows the recent acquisition of Deliverr, an...
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