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First Look at How PepsiCo is Using Tesla’s Electric Semi Trucks in their Business
Tesla has only delivered a limited number of its electric semi trucks, and most of them are in operation in PepsiCo’s fleet – primarily in its Sacramento facility, which has been completely electrified and is solar-powered. Tesla's semi truck has a list price of...
A Simple Plan Gone Awry
My compliments to Caroline O'Donovan of The Washington Post for this article. Amazon’s simple plan for groceries has gone awry. After acquiring Whole Foods Market in 2017, Amazon lost all momentum by FOOLISHLY competing against themselves by scaling Amazon Fresh...
This is Why Logistics and Velocity Matter
Amazon has announced that it has already delivered 1.8B packages to U.S. Prime members the same or next day, roughly four times what it delivered at those speeds by this point in 2019. For comparison, UPS delivered 24.3M packages per day in 2022 for a total of 6.2B...
The Mobile Store will soon be a Reality
I first started writing about the concept of mobile stores in 2010. I coined the phrase, "Hail a store" because I thought consumers should be able to access groceries and other products as easily as hailing an Uber. When I wrote an article about Robomart, many people...