Modern Shipper covers the gig economy, including same-day, on-demand, and last-mile delivery jobs and services. Readers will find current news on gig economy companies, gig economy workers, gig economy data and trends. In addition, Modern Shipper focuses on e-commerce, e-commerce platforms and companies, and e-commerce services and technologies.
A bad returns experience can turn off nearly three-quarters of consumers on a brand, so developing solutions to simplify this process are vital.
The software platform could help restore “lifetime value” to the 9.5 million tons of furniture that end up in landfills each year.
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.
Workhorse Group shares tanked after the U.S. Postal Service awarded a 10-year contract to Oshkosh Truck Corp. to modernize the aging mail delivery fleet.
Payment services provider Square posted 101% net revenue growth in 2020 over 2019 and 45% growth in net profit as it benefited from large growth in its Cash App division.
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.
DoorDash is accepting applications from women-, immigrant- and BIPOC-owned restaurants to participate in a new accelerator program designed to improve their chances of success.
Warehousing has changed more in the past five years than in the previous 70 years. Chris Riemann, managing director of Deloitte Consulting, and A.K. Schultz, co-founder and CEO of SVT Robotics, discuss the role of automation in this warehousing revolution and how organizations must move their supply chains forward to compete during the e-commerce boom and the spike in online ordering because of the COVID pandemic.
Geodis’ Jeff McDermott joined FreightWaves to talk about challenges that parcel carriers are facing and lessons learned from the pandemic.
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.
As ghost kitchens have popped up across the country, few have appeared on college campuses. Chartwells, which provides dining hall services, is rolling out the concept at client schools.
Andrew Lockwood, senior manager of solutions design at Suddath Global Logistics, discusses last-mile logistics strategies for manufacturing companies.
Motional, the Hyundai-backed autonomous vehicle developer, announced that it is now testing vehicles with no driver in the seat.
A $250 million e-commerce- and transportation-focused SPAC was filed Friday. Logistics industry veteran Dick Metzler is behind the deal.
While the opinion letters don’t have the force of law, they do suggest which way the new administration will go in classification of compensation issues
A test of drone delivery this week by manufacturer AgEagle and startup Valqari successfully delivered food and beverages to golfers while on the course.
Uber recently sent out a white paper on its views of compensation and other benefits for its drivers in Europe.
