Walmart

Rates and rejections into the Southeast are elevated as trailers and tractors are staged for disaster relief.

Sanguine outlook could flip, but retailers look well stocked ahead of peak season.

Target provides an optimistic shot in the arm as the mega-retailer reports a strong quarterly performance and raises its full-year outlook.

As the world’s largest retailer, the company is often seen as a bellwether for the overall retail landscape.

On today’s episode we’re talking about the Dow dropping, freight rates popping, California’s new CORE program, Freight Futures, project44 adding visibility to Amazon and Walmart, Market Expert Trivia, Big Deal Little Deal and so much more. Rewatch the LIVE experience

Kick off the week with the headhaul edition of WTT?!? Emily Szink returns as a special guest co-host with Dooner to bring you headlines about Walmart’s autonomous final-mile delivery vans, a giant deal in the on-demand delivery space, the Port Report and SONAR’s blockbuster new feature. JP talks mergers and acquisitions, market expert trivia and […]

Pilot in partnership with Gatik will run robovans on a two-mile route between a distribution center and retail store in Arkansas.

Walmart to open more than 10 DCs in China in next 1-2 decades

Two large private carriers are set to combine in a $2 billion deal that rebalances the food and beverage distribution landscape.

While shoppers are flocking to e-commerce sites, that is not the case for grocery shoppers, who remain more interested in seeing and feeling their produce before buying.

Supermarket workers at Albertsons, Vons and Ralphs stores voted today (June 26) to give union leaders the authority to call a strike. A tally of the votes was not immediately available. The decision itself does not trigger a strike, but gives the union the authority to call a strike any time in the future. In […]

You may have to become a super-shipper of choice. Don’t underestimate Walmart

Working with over 100 outside carriers and brokers, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is likely to be a shipper of choice for many already. But even one of the U.S. freight industry’s largest customers realized it could do better for drivers. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company came in third in a field of 135 shippers for theShipper of […]

Target looks to find a way into a delivery niche with the launch of same day deliveries

Walmart has exported its on-time, in-full requirement on the international marketplace. The results are improving but there is a lot of work to do.

The company launches today, with Walmart as a partner.

Plus: Port of Everett lands new tenant; biodiesel trumps other clean fuels in California and Europe gets a luxury CBD e-commerce site

A report indicates that the EU is slow to adopt alternate truck fuels. Indian logistics startups are flourishing. Chinese logistics firms that help Chinese businesses relocate are winners in the US-China trade war.

Tracy Rosser tapped for executive vice president post at transportation management services provider after helping oversee big-box retailer’s transport and supply chain operations.

Commenters want DOT to keep policy guidance, and not remove it. Walmart executive says lack of IT hurts driver productivity.