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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark Why Prime Day looked great and soft at once, what the early holiday import rush really signals, how Kimberly-Clark is rebuilding supply chain talent for AI, and why the freight market’s safety cushion is nearly gone. Short week, as I feel…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark Demand Is Redrawing the Map: Duluth Hands Amazon the Keys, Europe Discovers Ranch, the Whey Crunch Deepens, and America Keeps Moving Out The World Cup rolls on, my evenings are still happily booked (Go U-S-A), and the strangest economic story of…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark Nobody’s Waiting for Normal Anymore: The End of the Freight Downturn, the Real Story in Retail Sales, and the Lasting Lessons of Hormuz Summer is officially here, the World Cup (and, of course, my beloved Phillies) have my evenings-TV-watching booked, and…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark Change Comes in Sideways: A Three-Year Inflation High, Amazon’s LTL Move, Driverless Trucks Going Mainstream, and the Real Blockbuster Story The World Cup kicked off this week, and it still feels a little surreal that the biggest sporting event on the…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark What Summer Challenges in Logistics, Rare Earth Materials, Berkshire’s Housing Bet, and a New Wharton Study on AI Are Trying to Tell Us It’s finally feeling like summer in my corner of the supply chain world. Sunny skies, consistently warm temperatures,…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark When the Numbers Aren’t Telling the Whole Story: Consumer Sentiment, AI Jobs, 10-Minute Groceries, and the Pope Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. The unofficial start of summer felt earned this year. I participated in an annual 5k (shout-out…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark The Ground Floor Is Talking: Are We Listening to the Freight Market, the Carvana Disruption, the AI Backlash, and the Real Driver Shortage Story? Hope you all enjoy the unofficial start of summer this weekend. I don’t know about you, but…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark What We Built vs. What We Need Now: Why the Protein Boom, Negative Real Wages, the Saudi Truck Convoy, and a 1,500% Cargo Theft Surge Are All the Same Story It’s been a relentless week for industry news, or all news…
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