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Comment / Supply chain radar: An inconvenient truth behind DP-DHL’s rebuff to Amazon Fresh

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This past summer, other than writing columns for The Loadstar, yours truly has been mainly occupied with being full-time Dad to a new baby.

It’s been a long, hot summer. On several occasions, temperatures have approached 40C (104F) forcing Freight Baby and I down to the local mall just to sit under the air conditioning buying no more than ice cream.

At other times – even on cooler days – we go to a big supermarket a few miles away, buying stuff ...

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