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The facility in Brampton, Ontario, features an AutoStore system to support automated operations and help the retailer move product efficiently. Lululemon has opened a new distribution center in Ontario, Canada, to strengthen the company's e-commerce fulfillment capabilities in North America, the retailer announced last week. The 1-million-square-foot facility in Brampton broke ground in 2023 and became fully operational in June.

Helen of Troy CFO Brian Grass said there has not been a reliable pattern to the reimbursements, making it difficult to plan investments and offset supply disruptions. Helen of Troy has begun collecting refunds for tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court earlier this year, but unclear payment cadence and higher commodity costs are complicating the benefits to its bottom line, executives said during a Q1 2027 earnings call this month. Thus far, the company has secured $1.8 million of those reimbursements.

More than one-third (37.9%) of surveyed online grocery shoppers reported that they conducted “most” or “all, or almost all” of their digital grocery shopping with a rapid delivery service over the past year, signaling that this fulfillment method is increasingly being used for routine grocery shopping, according to the report. Coresight advised retailers to continue positioning their rapid delivery service as a full-basket shopping option in order to capitalize on the growing use of the service. Delivery has been a fulfillment frontrunner in online grocery for some time, and now rapid delivery is further strengthening the digital channel’s appeal, Coresight reported in its latest US Online Grocery Survey, which included input from more than 2,000 consumers.

A California-based truck driver has been sentenced to four years and eight months in state prison after pleading guilty to causing a fiery chain-reaction crash on Interstate 10 that killed three people and injured four others last year. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, of Yuba City, California, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in June to three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in connection with the Oct. 21, 2025, crash on westbound I-10 near the Interstate 15 interchange in Ontario, California, according to the Los Angeles Times. Cocktail reception into dinner and live music - 300 industry leaders in one purpose-built room.

DoorDash on Tuesday announced a deeper dive into the retail world by allowing independent merchants on Shopify that also have a physical store to easily add their product catalog to the DoorDash marketplace, further highlighting how it is becoming a competitor to Amazon, Walmart, Uber Eats, Roadie and legion of independent couriers in the on-demand e-commerce delivery space. In October, the company began offering fulfillment services for retailers such as CVS and Party City, using its network of DashMart neighborhood stores. More than 200,000 auto parts and accessories are now available for delivery on-demand through AutoParts.com on the DoorDash app, in partnership with a network of independent automotive parts distributors, under a deal between the companies in June.

The self-driving company announced in a blog post that its Waabi Driver software, trained exclusively on a Peterbilt 579, took control of a Volvo VNL Autonomous truck and drove it safely on highways and complex surface streets from the very first mile. To prove the Waabi Driver’s ability to generalize in this way, Waabi collaborated with partner Volvo Autonomous Solutions to integrate the Waabi Driver onto the Volvo VNL Autonomous. Before this, the Waabi Driver was used to driving a Peterbilt 579.