With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Banks and Tech Companies Jockey for Economic Control
As banks close branches, tech giants open physical stores.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Flying Blind
The fatal fragmentation of private information in the global supply chain system
Posted inWorking in America
Just How Exceptional Are the Buffalo Baristas?
They’ve unionized one Starbucks. They symbolize a fed-up proletariat. But does their victory portend anything further?
Posted inWorking in America
A New Regime at the Teamsters
Like Joe Biden, incoming Teamster president Sean O’Brien is an establishment guy turned reformer.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon’s Attack on Women’s Health
A company that treats a common pelvic ailment will soon have all its FDA-compliant medical devices undiscoverable in general search—because they are deemed “adult.”
Posted inTAP
Warren Delivers Again
Today on TAP: Her corporate minimum tax plugs a revenue gap with progressive reform—and unites her party to seal Build Back Better.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon Warns Sellers: Marketplace Could Shut Down If Congress Tries to Regulate It
Direct email communications seek to motivate third-party sellers to lobby their representatives.
Posted inBooks
Hucksters on Parade
Today’s CEOs are essentially carnival barkers, induced to yell louder by a corroded business culture.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Entrepreneurship, Amazon Style
Creating outside companies for deliveries and freight follows a franchising model that leads to lower wages and captive “independent” business.