Amazon.com’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market spawned endless speculation about how the internet giant would change the upscale grocer. Two years later, we’ve got an answer: Ten bucks.
July 10, 2019Logistics 50 | Freight Brokerage | Dry Storage Warehousing | Refrigerated Warehousing | Dedicated | Ocean Freight | Airfreight
Top Logistics Freight Brokerage
No rankings are available for this year.
Extras
Two Years After Amazon Deal, Whole Foods Is Just $10 Cheaper
YRC Appoints Jason Bergman Chief Customer Officer
Jason Bergman has been appointed chief customer officer for YRC Worldwide.
July 10, 2019Tesla Readies Production Boost, Hints of Return to Hiring Mode
Tesla Inc. is poised to increase production at its California car plant and is back in hiring mode, according to an internal e-mail sent days after the company wrapped up a record quarter of deliveries.
US, China’s Top Trade Officials Make First Contact Since Truce
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke on the phone with their Chinese counterparts as the two sides relaunch trade talks, marking the first high-level contact since their presidents agreed to a tentative truce last month.
DHL Sees Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals as Key to Growth
DHL Global Forwarding USA is rapidly moving to increase the amount of medical, life sciences and pharmaceutical freight — especially temperature-controlled items — it is forwarding around the world.
Corn in Recovery Mode With Summer Weather Here
After a cold, soggy start to the season, it’s finally feeling like summer in the Midwest, and corn fields are recovering. A turn toward warmer weather should be beneficial for the battered crop, and government data signal that conditions are starting to bottom out.
Document Automation Puts Trucking Back Office in Fast Lane
The deluge of documents that trucking generates is increasingly managed and processed via automation. Providers of document-management systems said these systems yield labor savings and efficiencies.
Amazon Workers Plan Prime Day Strike at a Minnesota Warehouse
Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers in Minnesota plan to strike during the online retailer’s summer sales extravaganza, a sign that labor unrest persists even after the company committed to paying all employees at least $15 an hour last year.
Great Lakes High Water Could Hurt Shipping, Industry Warns
As high water levels persist in the Great Lakes, some shoreline dwellers are putting pressure on officials to open up dams in the east to let out more water, but shipping industry officials in Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., worry such a move thousands of miles away could have big consequences locally.
In Court Filing, Prime Inc. Says Amazon’s Use of ‘Prime’ Causes Confusion
Prime Inc. says Amazon’s display of “Prime” on its shipping vehicles creates a likelihood of confusion with Prime Inc.'s trucking business, a July 2 complaint in the Western District of Missouri says.