Warehouses

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Instacart is moving beyond the store with plans to open robotic fulfillment centers for grocers to handle online orders. The grocery delivery company has announced that Fabric will provide the software and robotics for the facilities, which will start rolling out over the next 12 months, according...

For many warehouse automation companies, the time is now to enter the public markets, and that is true for Berkshire Grey, which will likely go public later this month through a reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp. (RAAC). A vote...

Maybe not today, and not likely tomorrow, but one day soon, many Americans will receive their first e-commerce delivery by drone. For residents in select areas of the country – North Carolina, Arkansas and Ohio among others – drones are already making deliveries to the home. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN...

A process four years in the making to regulate the emissions of truck traffic in and out of Southern California warehouses reached its end earlier this month with the adoption of a new rule that the warehouse industry says will ratchet up costs in the sector. The South Coast Air Quality Management...

Fetch Robotics, a cloud robotics and on-demand automation company, announced a new drag-and-drop development toolkit on March 2. The toolkit allows customers to implement flexible automation in existing warehouse facilities – without third-party assistance. "With Workflow Builder, we're making a...

Since the rise of ecommerce, there has been a perennial need for businesses within the logistics sector to optimize their operations to expedite product movement. Technology is seen as a primary driver of those optimization efforts.  However, adopting technology into operations is easier said than...

At the 3PL & Supply Chain Summit in Brussels, Sander Breugelmans, vice president at logistics real estate major Prologis, spoke on the need for businesses to nurture a fresh perspective towards retaining their warehousing workforce when faced with a market grappling with labor shortage. ...

There is little doubt that e-commerce continues to gain traction and is becoming a preferred method of shopping for more consumers. But there is one problem few investors are discussing, a CNBC report noted: the surging cost of warehouse and distribution centers. Industrial real-estate rates close...