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Study: Over 15% of all retail returns in 2024 were fraudulent
As retailers enter 2025, they continue struggling to slow the flood of returns fraud, which represented 15.14%--or nearly one-sixth—of all product returns in 2024, according to a report from Appriss Retail and Deloitte.That percentage is…
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Daimler expands deal with sensor vendor for self-driving trucks
Daimler Truck North America (DTNA)’s autonomous trucking subsidiary, Torc Robotics, will team with the sensing and perception systems provider Aeva to advance the development of a new safety architecture for truck applications – enabling…
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Daimler expands deal with sensor vendor for self-driving trucks
Daimler Truck North America (DTNA)’s autonomous trucking subsidiary, Torc Robotics, will team with the sensing and perception systems provider Aeva to advance the development of a new safety architecture for truck applications – enabling…
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Group chat | DC Velocity
Picture a busy DC, with manually operated forklifts, people, and pallets in constant motion. At the same time, the stationary equipment they interact with, such as conveyors and palletizers, is industriously whirring away. Together, they…
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Logistics gives back: December 2024
To celebrate its 58th year in business, the North Carolina-based intralogistics company Carolina Handling has awarded 58 motorized pallet jacks to hunger relief organizations throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama. Combined, the…
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Workplace report finds 5 trends sweeping the global labor pool
Waves of change are expected to wash over workplaces in the new year, highlighted by companies’ needs to balance the influx of artificial intelligence (AI) with the skills, capabilities, and perspectives that are uniquely human,…
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Zebra acquires maker of Brightpick warehouse robots
Logistics tech provider Zebra Technologies today said it has acquired Photoneo, a Kentucky provider of 3D vision and AI-powered robotics that makes the Brightpick line of warehouse robotics for automating fulfillment tasks like order…
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Maersk offers 5 steps to make your supply chain “antifragile”
Companies worldwide faced waves of business disruptions throughout the past year, but as 2025 is predicted to be just as complex as 2024, global cargo carrier Maersk has listed five steps for making supply chains “antifragile.”Maersk’s…
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Straight talk on supply chains and the economy: An interview with Jason Schenker
After a dismal 2023, the U.S. economy finished 2024 in pretty good shape—inflation was in retreat, transportation fuel costs had fallen, and consumer spending remained strong. As we begin the new year, there’s a lot about the economy to…
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Composting isn’t just for food waste anymore
The next time you buy a loaf of bread or a pack of paper towels, take a moment to consider the future that awaits the plastic it’s wrapped in. That future isn’t pretty: Given that most conventional plastics take up to 400 years to…
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