During a normal spring, the sight of orchards bursting with clusters of almonds is a boon throughout California’s Central Valley. Here is money growing on trees.Not this year.As Scott Phippen […]
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Back to news homeGopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise
“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the long term,” he said.Gopuff added that it was putting a public offering on the back burner because the […]
Amazon Union Success May Point to a New Labor Playbook
The critics typically acknowledge that the campaigns helped galvanize support for higher wages even if they fell short of unionizing workers. Defenders say the goal is to have an impact […]
How Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer Beat Amazon
In the first dark days of the pandemic, as an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls planned a small, panicked walkout over safety conditions at the retailer’s only fulfillment center in […]
How Amazon Is Resisting Unions in Two Upcoming Elections
On Staten Island, Amazon supervisors often refer to them as “training.” At an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, supervisors refer to them ambiguously as “meetings.” Amazon says they’re officially “small group […]
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Enough Truck Drivers
Every truck stop is like a shrine seeking to ward off the demons of fatigue. Refrigerated display cabinets are stocked with supercaffeinated energy drinks whose brand names attest to the […]
Amazon Warehouse in Alabama Set to Begin Second Union Election
During the first union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse, early last year, organizers largely avoided visiting workers at home because Covid was raging and few Americans were vaccinated.The Retail, […]
A Normal Supply Chain? It’s ‘Unlikely’ in 2022.
With the havoc at ports showing no signs of abating and prices for a vast array of goods still rising, the world is absorbing a troubling realization: Time alone will […]
Warehouse Space Is the Latest Thing Being Hoarded
As retailers and logistics companies try to stockpile goods to hedge against supply chain problems, they are facing a new challenge: In many parts of the United States, there is […]