White Glove Home Delivery Blog

Recently the WSJ wrote a great article about the importance of understanding complexities of supply chain and fullfilment. Consider this prior to making business decisions:

A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S.

Online retailer Amazon has big plans and much of it involves a very complex logistics operation. It's been rumored for some time but now plans are coming to fruition.  "Amazon is now officially going into the air freight business with the announcement that the Seattle online retailer has signed a five to seven year lease for 20 cargo planes.

Retailer Now recently wrote up a great article discussing a couple of the pro's and cons of outsourcing home delivery. It's a big decision and for many furniture and appliance retailers it's not an easy one to make. The entire article is worth the read but to summarize we've clipped out a few quotes below: 

Congratualtions to award recipients of the annual Bob's Discount Furniture Partner in Progress GALA. 

We love data. We love analyzing it. We love interpreting it. We love using it to make operations more effective and efficient. So when we find statistics that stands out we have no problem calling attention to them. How about this: Jeb Bush spent $2,884 per Iowa vote! 

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." -Benjamin Franklin

Operating a successful retail business is no easy feat. Years of building a strong reputation can be easily forgotten with one bad experience. Unfortunately, in today’s world people are 10 times more likely to share negative experiences with their network then they are to share a positive one. To help you weigh out this decision we’ve created a list of the top 5 reason why retailers outsource: 

We had plans to exhibit at the Las Vegas Furniture Market this week, but we're stranded here in DC instead. So we've decided to make the most out of the situation and hold a contest for a free iPad Pro. 

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The Capital Weather Gang has a long standing history of creatively naming notable storms in the Washington, D.C. area. We have decided to hold our own contest to award anyone that can think of a name that most closely relates

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Brake Safety Week is scheduled for Sept. 6-12. The annual outreach and enforcement campaign was created in partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and involves law enforcement agencies across North America. Inspectors will conduct roadside inspections of commercial trucks and buses to look for missing, loose or worn parts, air or hydraulic fluid leaks, and other issues with brake systems. Vehicles will be placed out of service if they have defective or out-of-adjustment brakes.

It would appear that the California Labor Commission has ruled that at least one Uber driver is an employee. As it stands now, Uber employs its drivers as third-party contractors, operating as a logistics company that provides access to customer demand and directions, transactions, etc.