BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — Walmart’s cavernous stores are known for aisles of low-priced groceries, paper towels and apparel. Now, those big boxes are hubs for its e-commerce business, serving as launch pads for delivery drones, automated warehouses for online grocery orders and departure locations for direct-to-fridge drop-offs. Eventually, they will help pack and ship goods for…
Read MoreLOUISVILLE, Ky.—The pandemic-fueled online shopping boom has created a severe labor crunch in the Louisville, Ky., metro area, as delivery companies and other businesses compete for workers in one of the nation’s top freight transit hubs. The region’s unemployment rate has fallen steeply to 3.2% in October from its recent pandemic peak of 16.8% in…
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