#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Gap Inc. recently hosted a supplier summit for its top 100 vendors to learn about the company’s priorities — the first one since the onset of the COVI...

#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Rite Aid will lay off 241 employees at a Woodland, California, distribution center, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN...

#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Ireland-based retailer Primark opened its second U.S. distribution center this month in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jacksonville Port Auth...

#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Sports nutrition retailer The Feed is installing 48 autopickers in its warehouse, near Boulder, Colorado, to complete order fulfillment, ...

#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Walmart opened its third next generation fulfillment center in Lancaster, Texas, as it prepares for holiday demand, according to an Oct. 17...

#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: UPS plans to acquire Happy Returns from PayPal, bolstering its label-free returns, the company announced Wednesday. U.S.-based Happy Return...

#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amazon opened a robotics fulfillment center in Windsor, Connecticut, where workers will process orders alongside bots. The 3.8 million square-foot facil...

#SmallBusiness Tractor Supply Company opened its largest distribution center, in Navarre, Ohio, as the rural lifestyle retailer pursues an expansion of one-day delivery services.  Tractor Supply CEO Hal Lawton cuts a pallet to officially open...

#SmallBusiness American Eagle’s logistics arm Quiet Platforms will expand same-day and next-day service by accelerating openings of advanced fulfillment centers through a partnership with real estate brokerage JLL. The facilities are optimized ...

#SmallBusiness Foot Locker has opened a new distribution center in Reno, Nevada, as it looks to speed up shipping times in the Western U.S., the company announced Nov. 17. The 465,000-square-foot distribution center is set to handle more than 2...

#SmallBusiness American Eagle’s logistics arm Quiet Platforms is now handling a third of the retailer’s direct orders as the company makes progress scaling the service. The retailer is leveraging Quiet across the American Eagle and Aerie brands...

#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: La-Z-Boy has made “structural changes” across its supply chain to shorten lead times and work through a large backlog of orders, President and CEO Melinda Whittington said on a Q4 earnings call. The furniture company...

#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Joann spent $35.3 million on excess freight costs in Q4, a spokesperson said in an email, a figure at least 3 times higher than the $11.3 million in Q3. "Contributing factors to higher-than-expected freight costs in ...

#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Party City will be chartering vessels and leasing containers to shorten lead times as disruptions persist, CEO Brad Weston said during a Q4 earnings call. Since the company's distribution centers are predominantly on...

#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Rising port congestion has toymakers worried their products won't make it onto shelves by the holiday season, Ed Desmond, vice president of The Toy Association said during a virtual press conference with the Port of ...