FW: Walmart rolls forward with brokerage – what it means for Amazon

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FREIGHTWAVES reports:

Trucking companies in Walmart Transportation’s network have recently started receiving emails about Walmart’s new third-party logistics offering. This initiative signals the retailer’s deeper expansion into freight services that it announced in August, leveraging its existing logistics network as an offering to its Walmart Sellers.

The emails, sent to select carriers, introduce Walmart’s brokerage program and outline the benefits of participation.

“We’re connecting with a select group of carriers like yourself to embark on an initiative that will transform the way we deliver to ...