Whole Foods Places New Limits On Suppliers, Upsetting Some Small Vendors
– The Washington Post
All restaurants, retailers and convenience stores should take notice – Amazon continuing to squeeze the supply chain to their advantage.
– Politico
Forget automation. The workplace is already cracking up in profound ways, and Washington is sorely behind on dealing with it.
Why Is The U.S. So Bad At Protecting Workers From Automation?
– The Atlantic
The strategies used to help workers displaced by technology and globalization in the 1980s ultimately failed. So why do the country’s policymakers continue to resort to the same tactics?
– The Washington Post
Retail jobs got smoked in 2017. The sector dropped 66,500 jobs even as the economy as a whole added more than 2 million. But it’s not fair to dub it a “retail apocalypse” when retail is one of the biggest, most diverse sectors in the economy. Vending machines are retail. So are liquor stores and online auctions. And not all of them got clobbered.