by Brittain Ladd | Jun 3, 2023 | Grocery, Logistics, Microfulfillment, Retail
I greatly appreciate being the first return guest for the wonderful Fulfillment IQ podcast. Special thanks to Harshida Acharya, Dan Coll 🛒📦🚀 and Ninaad Acharya for asking me to return. A few comments: ✅ Amazon needs physical stores. An acquisition of Target within a...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 1, 2023 | E-Commerce, Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
H-E-B is the leader within the grocery industry when it comes to leveraging automated micro-fulfillment centers (MFC) to fulfill online grocery and curbside pickup orders. H-E-B refers to their automated facilities as eCommerce Fulfillment Centers or EFC. H-E-B has a...
by Brittain Ladd | May 31, 2023 | Microfulfillment, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
According to several reports, one grocery chain is fighting hard to keep stores open despite rampant shoplifting and an uptick in violence forcing many retailers to leave major cities across the country. Giant Food, which operates 165 supermarkets in D.C., Maryland,...
by Brittain Ladd | May 8, 2023 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
Individuals like to reach out to me off the record to ask for my opinion on strategy, robotics, and operations. In return, they provide me with information. For example, for nearly 2.5 years, I’ve had discussions with individuals from Walmart and dunnhumby about...
by Brittain Ladd | Sep 22, 2021 | Grocery, Microfulfillment
GETTY Read original article on Forbes The $1.04 trillion-plus grocery industry is projected to continue growing, and investments from venture capital firms, Wall Street banks and private investors are supercharging innovation. In particular, micro-fulfillment centers...
