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Can Click-And-Collect Innovate Pharmacy’s Last Mile?
Can Click-And-Collect Innovate Pharmacy’s Last Mile?
January 11, 2019  |  Retail

The last mile of prescription refills remains a frustrating, friction-filled experience. Pharmacy apps make the act of refilling a breeze. Text prompts offer reminders that...

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Amazon Prompts USPS To Monetize The Mailbox
Amazon Prompts USPS To Monetize The Mailbox
December 13, 2018  |  Amazon

Call it the Amazon Effect — of a different sort. News has come that the Trump administration wants to boost the United States Postal Service’s (USPS’)...

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Getting Out Of The B2B Payments Slog
Getting Out Of The B2B Payments Slog
September 27, 2018  |  B2B Payments

  The last mile. The concept has a finality to it, a sense of completion. But in business, as in any endeavor that spans time,...

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Last Mile Sputters Amid Amazon’s eCommerce Haul, Delivery Driver Shortage
Last Mile Sputters Amid Amazon’s eCommerce Haul, Delivery Driver Shortage
June 20, 2018  |  Delivery

The trend is your friend, goes a saying in the stock market. The trend toward a driver shortage, though, is no one’s friend along the...

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Securing The Last Mile Through Wi-Fi-Enabled Locks
Securing The Last Mile Through Wi-Fi-Enabled Locks
June 13, 2018  |  Delivery

The lock, modernized? The package thief, thwarted as a result? The last mile, for all its logistics, for all its twists and turns across modes...

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Sizzle Fizzle: Last Mile Sizzles, Banks Fizzle And Snapchat Splits The Difference
Sizzle Fizzle: Last Mile Sizzles, Banks Fizzle And Snapchat Splits The Difference
June 09, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Snapchat’s Sizzly Fizzle, or Fizzly Sizzle  Usually in this column the sizzles and the fizzles are pretty distinct. But every so often there’s a player...

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Coming Soon: Hamburgers By Drone In The Burbs
Coming Soon: Hamburgers By Drone In The Burbs
June 06, 2018  |  Delivery

The last mile has its challenges — faced on land, over roads, amid ocean waves and in the air. Yet among the many logistical obstacles,...

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Amid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom
Amid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom
May 24, 2018  |  Delivery

Keep on truckin’ — if you can find the drivers. The Washington Post reported that the trucking industry, that linchpin of last-mile deliveries, is facing...

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Last Mile, Last Few Feet Means Thinking In Bulk For Delivery Players
Last Mile, Last Few Feet Means Thinking In Bulk For Delivery Players
May 10, 2018  |  Delivery

The new mantra in last mile might be: Go big or go home. And it might be enough to change how some of the marquee...

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