Food & Beverage

Five Keys to Customer Data Protection (Now That GDPR Is Here)

June 27, 2018

Protecting customer data should always be a top priority for businesses. But doing so is increasingly extending beyond moral responsibility and taking on the form of legal requirement.

Automation Eliminates Jobs — Not Work, New Report Says

June 26, 2018

Industryweek

The debate on whether or not automation is a job-cutting strategy has reached fever pitch.

Walmart Bests Whole Foods in Study of Food Supply's Human Toll

June 26, 2018

Bloomberg

Grocers including Walmart Inc., Jumbo Group Ltd. and Whole Foods Market Inc. fared poorly in ratings looking at the treatment of the women, farmers and food-sector workers who supply supermarket shelves in the U.S. and European Union.

Opinion: What the Supreme Court's Internet Sales Tax Ruling Says About the State of Retail

June 25, 2018

Andria Cheng, Forbes contributor

Brick-and-mortar retailers that have seen their businesses upended, and some literally destroyed, by the rise of e-commerce finally had a moment of vindication last week: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark 5-4 ruling, basically gives states the green light to have online retailers collect sales tax just like any local retailer.

Spend Analytics: Understanding the Total Cost of a Supplier Relationship

June 22, 2018

Challenge: Growth driven by acquisitions left a global manufacturer with a mixed bag of ERP systems — resulting in an unconsolidated view of spend and an inability to quickly analyze data. The manual reporting system, combined with data extraction and trust issues, was costly and left the manufacturer with a poor understanding of true supplier expenses.

U.K. Supermarkets Are ‘Trapping Suppliers in Poverty,’ Report Says

June 22, 2018

Supply Management

Price squeezes by some of the U.K.’s biggest supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda, are hurting workers and small-scale farmers in some of the poorest parts of the world, Oxfam has said.

These High-Tech Avocados Last Twice As Long Before Going Bad

June 21, 2018

Los Angeles Times

The new avocados rolling out to Costco stores in the Midwest this week don't look like the future of fresh produce. But they're quietly testing technology that could more than double the shelf life of vegetables and fruits.

Dell Pilot Program Tracks Old Electronics to See Where They Actually End Up

June 21, 2018

Environmental Leader

Dell is tracking where its products end up after they are collected — via the company’s U.S. consumer takeback program.

This E-Commerce Start-Up Wants to Save Family Farms. Big Ag Is Fighting Back.

June 21, 2018

Forbes

Mark Gath’s farmhouse in Luverne, Minnesota, sits 30 miles down country roads from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. From that base in the heartland, Gath, a sturdy man in boots and a blue shirt, farms more than 10,000 acres of corn and soybeans with the help of his wife, Leah, and sons Dalton and Stetson. Though his farm is larger than average, he feels squeezed by low commodity prices and the rising costs of seeds, pesticides and equipment. “Everyone is scared out here,” he says.

As Tesla Races to Meet Model 3 Deadline, Factory Pressures and Suspicions Grow

June 21, 2018

The Washington Post

Tesla chief Elon Musk said last week that the company’s layoffs of 9 percent of its workforce wouldn’t affect production as the all-electric automaker races to build thousands of new Model 3 sedans a week.

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