Weekly wrap-up

Walmart launches autonomous grocery delivery in Houston Walmart has announced that it will partner with Nuro, a robotics company, to launch a pilot project that will make autonomous grocery deliveries…

Ford is making car parts with McDonalds waste In 2018, McDonalds sold 822 million cups of coffee in the US resulting in a lot of coffee chaff, which is the…

Blockchain could save the food industry billions, according to new research Blockchain could save the food industry $31 billion by the year 2024 according to new data from Juniper Research.…

UPS to improve precision logistics Early next year UPS will launch its UPS Premier service, which will use sensors that can track medical packages at all times. The service will…

Tesla to open its first European factory Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, has previously talked about Tesla’s aims to build a European factory, but it was while he was at…

Ralph Lauren to improve supply chain visibility Ralph Lauren will improve supply chain visibility of all Polo products by stitching QR tags into garments adjacent to the traditional branding tags.…

Amazon unveils free grocery delivery Amazon has announced that it will offer its Amazon Fresh service to prime customers for free. The company revealed that it would be removing the…

Wings teams up with FedEx for Drone delivery Wings, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has partnered up with FedEx Express to use drones instead of trucks for last…

Amazon to offer free next day delivery shipping on low cost items Amazon is continuing to change how goods are supplied with a new announcement that there will be no…

U.S. trade tariffs to be imposed on EU food products The supply of food and drink products that are exported from the EU to the U.S. could be affected when…