E-commerce & Fulfillment

Safeway is the latest supermarket to begin a test of robots for contactless delivery of online grocery orders.

Delivery drone manufacturer Flirtey is ramping up production and now taking preorders for its system.

Instacart may forgo the traditional path to public status and sell its shares directly to the public, according to a Reuters report.

As Amazon continues to dominate e-commerce, major retailers are stepping up their investments hoping to benefit from shifting consumer demands.

The asset-light warehouse startup will use the capital to expand its network, co-founder says.

Instacart has announced a new funding round of $265 million, increasing its valuation to $39 billion.

New York-based Fillogic has secured a $2.5 million seed funding round to expand its e-commerce logistics platform.

Ox uses augmented reality to speed the order picking process and improve accuracy. It has landed a $3.5 million seed round of funding to grow its business.

Instacart has announced a new funding round of $265 million, increasing its valuation to $39 billion.

Berkshire Grey, which provides AI-enabled integrated robotic solutions for the supply chain, will get $413 million in cash.

Third-party sellers using the BigCommerce e-commerce platform can now integrate with Walmart.com, opening up new online avenues to sell their products.

The store’s opening is part of DHL unit’s focus on contactless transactions, social distancing, it says.

Best Buy is shrinking its retail footprint in several locations as it moves to using stores for e-commerce order fulfillment operations.

A bad returns experience can turn off nearly three-quarters of consumers on a brand, so developing solutions to simplify this process are vital.

COVID altered the way CPG retailers and manufacturers interacted with, and delivered products to, consumers, and it is unlikely to ever return to the old ways.

The e-commerce shipping platform said it is now valued at nearly half a billion dollars.

Brian Devine, senior vice president at ProLogistix, discusses the future of warehouse labor.

Last mile may be the final stop, but it needs to be front of mind for shippers, according to two industry experts.

Greater Philadelphia’s near-invisible vacancy rates paced the logistics real estate market’s 2020 gains.

With large players like Amazon adopting electric vehicles, pressure will start building on smaller fleets and owner-operators to adopt them as well, and that will require companies like GoFor Industries to provide support and all-in-one packages.