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Last-mile companies poised to shake up the market

U.S. retailers have a last-mile problem. Complex routes, failed deliveries, returned products and consumer expectations around delivery speed, flexibility and reliability have complicated the last-mile equation in recent years. 

Add to that the rising costs of fuel and labor and the last mile is now the most expensive portion of the delivery process.

In fact, according to Capgemini, last-mile delivery accounts for more than half of the total cost of shipping. And per Statista, as much as $41 of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/last-mile-companies-poised-to-shake-up-the-market

Chick-fil-A just did something Uber and DoorDash have never done

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Companies like Uber and DoorDash have made life easy for millions of Americans. Yet the lives of...

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Instacart eyeing delivery for small business

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Contending with a rapidly declining internal valuation, grocery delivery platform Instacart is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/instacart-eyeing-delivery-for-small-business

Shipium bolsters carrier partnerships with Better Trucks deal

For the past few years, the conventional wisdom around retail shipping has been to rely either on in-house assets or on a single large carrier, like FedEx or UPS, to complete deliveries. 

But no longer. Retailers now are beginning to shift toward a multicarrier strategy. Using networks of carriers and 3PLs, sellers are able to skirt general rate increases by major providers while reserving the ability to add and remove capacity at will. 

The model has spawned an array of shipping orchestration...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipium-bolsters-carrier-partnerships-with-better-trucks-deal

Last-mile firm Bungii streamlines payments with Branch

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Once a relatively unknown strategy, networks of independently contracted delivery drivers — or what...

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Potential FTC probe caps whirlwind week for Amazon

Another week, another whirlwind of news surrounding e-commerce’s resident superpower.

Capping a week of news about investigations, cutbacks and worse-than-expected earnings, The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) faces a potential antitrust lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission in the coming months.

According to sources the Journal reported are familiar with the matter, the timing of the case is unclear and a suit may never be brought at all. The sources said...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/potential-ftc-probe-caps-whirlwind-week-for-amazon

Shippo earns FedEx’s first-ever Platform Account

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Modern shipping is all about consolidation. More shipping partners means more capacity that can be...

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Flytrex granted FAA approval for long-range commercial drone deliveries

The drone delivery industry, just like the unmanned aircraft that power it, is currently flying well below the stratosphere.

Among the drone firms that have made their 2022 delivery figures public, none eclipsed more than a few thousand deliveries, mainly owing to the Federal Aviation Administration’s stringent regulations around the young industry.

Those rules, designed to ensure the safety and privacy of the public, have limited commercial drone delivery operations to a handful of companies...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flytrex-granted-faa-approval-for-long-range-commercial-drone-deliveries

FourKites enhances supply chain visibility with Data Connector

The modern supply chain is a data game — the more data a company has, the better it’s able to avoid and react to local and global disruptions.

The problem for many companies, though, is access to that data.

On Thursday, supply chain visibility platform FourKites launched a product designed to share its catalog of insights more easily. The new offering, Data Connector, allows customers to leverage the firm’s data directly through their own business intelligence systems, whereas in the past they...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fourkites-enhances-supply-chain-visibility-with-data-connector

Prescription subscription: Amazon delivers with RxPass

As Amazon continues to trim head count by around 18,000 amid an economic downturn, the massive marketplace continues to roll out new products.

On Tuesday, the e-commerce giant introduced RxPass, an add-on to Amazon Pharmacy that allows Prime members to have multiple prescription medications delivered to their doorsteps for a $5 monthly subscription fee. Prime subscribers can tack on the $5 charge to their existing Prime membership by visiting the Amazon Pharmacy website. 

Notably, RxPass does not...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/prescription-subscription-amazon-delivers-with-rxpass

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