What Else We’re Consuming | October
What Else We're Consuming 1. BECAUSE MARKET: Adult Incontinence Products Industry Continues to Grow New players, new product formats increase competition in the market - NON WOVENS INDUSTRY FROM THE ARTICLE: One of these new players is Because Market, which...has a...
So, why did PayPal ghost Pinterest? Is retail just not ready for social shopping at scale?
Midway through October digital payment platform, PayPal entered into talks with online photo-sharing platform, Pinterest, regarding an acquisition. But why? At first glance, there’s no doubt the two companies seem unlikely partners, and it is difficult to imagine how...
GoPuff makes trendy change to brick-and-mortar, on-site fulfillment retailer
In a trend that sees the online shopping takeover continue to lose its footing, consumer products procurement and delivery company, GoPuff has launched an undefined number of retail outlets. Precipitating another fashionable move from retailers big and small in the...
In the Numbers | October
This tweet from @eComm Guy went a little bit viral in the niche social media ecosystem frequented by supply chain and logistics professionals. Certainly, we were hoping for a nice, easy-to-read data set to adequately demonstrate the wild ride of eCommerce over the...
All Things Amazon
Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Announces Product Opportunity Explorer to Help Third-Party Sellers Identify New Products to Sell in Amazon’s Store - BUSINESS WIRE Product Opportunity Explorer provides third-party sellers with detailed insights into what customers...
All Things Carriers
Delivery Hero, Coupang Eats face possible curbs on quick commerce - KOREA TIMES Ministry of Trade and Industry and Energy has hired a private research organization to study the impact on small businesses of quick commerce. A coalition of small retailers urged...
All Things Ecommerce
Tokopedia reclaims top spot from Shopee as most visited e-commerce site in Indonesia - TECH WIRE For the second quarter of 2019, Tokopedia reclaims the title of Indonesia's most frequented e-commerce site. Tokopedia's monthly online traffic hit 147 million...
All About Supply Chain
Supply-Crunch Inflation Gives Central Banks an Unfixable Problem - SUPPLY CHAIN BRAIN Raising interest rates now would dampen the demand that propelled the globe out of recession last year. However, if central banks remain cautious and the supply constraint...
Just For Fun | August & September
A Search Engine Designed to Suprise You - MEDIUM “Marginalia” up-ranks sites that are text-heavy — with truly offbeat results. Call it “serendipity engineering”…and downranking ones that are highly visual, loaded with modern web cruft, and SEO-optimized. The upshot,...
What Else We’re Consuming | August & September
Outdoor brands’ apparel sizes don’t match customer demand, study shows - OUTSIDE BUSINESS JOURNAL A new study published by the subscription-box service Cairn shows that outdoor brands are producing apparel that’s too small, on average, for consumer demand. Cairn,...
All Things Last-Mile
California’s Prop 22, which blocked AB5 for app-based drivers, ruled unconstitutional A California court ruled that Proposition 22 was unconstitutional. Given that the decision was issued by a single county court, it is likely to be challenged. It is the second...
With Peak Season Looming, Traffic at the Port of Los Angeles Reaches New High
The queue of container ships waiting to enter Los Angeles's and Long Beach's neighboring ports hit an all-time high of 65 vessels this past week, and they'll wait an average of 8.7 days to deliver their cargo. And that's after nearly four months in transit! That may...
We mean it this time! Report from industrial sourcing platform, Thomas, says US manufacturing will be back!
We know what you're thinking... ...that the prospect of bringing manufacturing back to the US has mostly been an empty promise - the stuff of over-hyped campaign platforms and a subject of seemingly constant controversy. Think: Former President Trump's call to coal...
All About Peak Season
OnTrac to stop accepting new peak business on Sept. 1 OnTrac, which covers eight western states and every zip code in California, will not accept new fourth-quarter business after September 1. The carrier must be completely onboarded with the Phoenix-based carrier by...
All About eCommerce
3 Pandemic-Fueled Commerce Trends Poised to Yield Long-Term Growth for Businesses Text-based marketing aided businesses in developing the brand-to-shopper closeness that texting fosters. Loyalty programs have progressed beyond the exchange of points for purchases to...
All Things Warehousing 2.0
In logistics warehousing, the Windy City has the wind at its back. According to Newmark Group Inc. data, the Chicago market had more than 1.16 billion square feet of industrial inventory in the second quarter. In addition, more than 16 million square feet of new...
Just for Fun | July
The Billionaire Boys Club...in Space Three things for pure enjoyment this month, and only related to fulfillment, logistics, or the supply chain on an extremely peripheral level. First, cheek out this live view of the earth from the international space station....
In the Numbers | July
The World's Tech Giants, Compared to the Size of Economies - Visual Capitalist Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have market caps well above $1.5 trillion. If Apple's market cap was equal to a country's annual GDP, it might just be in the G7. With its market cap of...