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Hy-Vee Integrates Instacart Fulfillment Capabilities for Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

Hy-Vee will leverage Instacart ’s Fulfillment as a Service (FaaS) to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites and apps. New York City’s Fairway Market partnered with Instacart in December 2023 , joining Kroger , Aldi and Walmart.

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UPS strike could disrupt e-comm fulfillment

Retail Wire

The company’s unionized staff is represented by the Teamsters, which is looking to get something back after agreeing to a 2018 deal that many members saw as insufficient. UPS’s 350,000 unionized workers could strike if the parcel delivery giant cannot reach a deal on a new labor contract.

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Amazon Creates 125,000 More Fulfillment and Transportation Jobs Starting at $18 an Hour

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon is adding 125,000 new warehouse and transportation jobs as it seeks to staff up the 350 fulfillment centers, sortation centers, regional air hubs and delivery stations it has opened this year, 100 of which will open in September alone. retailers to boost its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, back in 2018.

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Australia’s best-kept e-commerce secret reshaping fulfilment systems

Inside Retail

For a young business only established in 2018, it has already expanded to serve around 4000 clients in Australia and in New Zealand and is swiftly accelerating its own expansion into China and the US based on its 200-per-cent year-on-year growth. Balmes describes the Eiz platform as “Australia’s best-kept e-commerce secret”.

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Kroger opens Austin fulfillment spoke

Mass Relators

last month opened its latest fulfillment “spoke” in Austin, Texas, allowing the grocery retailer to expand the reach of a customer fulfillment center (CFC) already operating in the Dallas area and powered by technology from U.K.-based The partners’ opened their newest fulfillment center last month in Aurora, Colo.,

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Kroger unveils first Ocado-powered fulfillment center

Mass Relators

CINCINNATI – Kroger announced that the first of 20 customer fulfillment centers (CFC) it is developing in partnership with British online grocer Ocado Group PLC is ready to fulfill orders from online shoppers. The breadth of this fulfillment ecosystem will be crucial in helping Kroger to continue to win in e-commerce across the U.S.”

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FTC: Amazon halted Seller Fulfilled Prime enrollment despite strong delivery performance

Retail Dive

Sellers met the now-reopened program's delivery estimate requirement more than 95% of the time in 2018, per the agency's lawsuit. Amazon said that claim is misleading.