Retail Operations
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Bankrupt retailer’s DC up for auction
Stage Stores, Inc filed for Chapter 11, 435,196-square-foot facility in Texas on the market
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Grocery deploys inventory control robots
Woodman’s Markets is deploying multipurpose robots at its locations throughout Wisconsin and Illinois
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Target and Walmart end Thanksgiving store shopping
Retailers rethinking this year’s Black Friday shopping bonanza weekend – along with other key retail days during the holiday season
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Empire hones supply chain strategy
Accelerating plans for two e-commerce fulfillment centres and introducing Ocado’s store pick solution
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Walmart Canada spending $3.5 billion to upgrade supply chain
Two new distribution centres part of the plan
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Don’t panic (again)
Here’s why Melbourne’s supermarket shortages will quickly pass
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Industrial real estate demand expected to boom
E-commerce sales could hit US$1.5 trillion by 2025 – which would increase the demand for industrial real estate to an additional billion square feet
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Grocery workers should still have pandemic pay, unions say
Union leaders are telling MPs there is no reason to cut pandemic-related pay premiums since the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t gone away
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The big stress test
The Covid-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented disruption to global supply chains. It is also providing a rare window into the future.
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Done deals: June 18, 2020
Contracts, mergers, acquisitions and big deals in the supply chain sector this week
