Target stock tanks after poor Q1 profit
Regardless of Wall Street’s bet on the retail company, Target revealed a 52% profit decline in Q1.
$6/gallon is average price of gas in California
California’s average gas price per gallon has topped $6.
Attracting a new generation of supply chain workers
Baby Boomers and Gen Xers need to consider their Millennial and Generation Z counterparts when staffing the supply chain.
Inflation is worsened by ineffective policy decisions
Politicians are expected to fix what the public perceives to be broken - especially when it comes to inflation problems.
Predicting employee turnover from a leadership perspective
Your company’s leadership must maintain their top talent to keep the positions filled.
Tesla sales plunge in China
Tesla’s sales struggle to gain footing in China amid persistent lockdowns.
Q1 Results for Amazon revealed surprising data
For Q1, Amazon has reported a loss of $3.8 billion.
Digitalization efforts are held back by lack of labor
52% of companies lack skilled labor - so says a new CSCMP statistic.
Employers are getting creative with hiring perks, attracting young workforce
Companies are looking to broaden their offerings to new potential hires.
Airplane tickets up almost 20% from one month ago
Between March and April 2022, airfares jumped almost 20%.
President Biden announces he’s considering tariff cuts
President Biden announced that he’s considering tariff cuts to battle high inflation.
Used-car price tags have dropped slightly, soothing the blow from record-high inflation
Cox Automotive revealed this past Friday that its Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index, which records prices of used vehicles sold at its wholesale auctions, dropped 1% between March and April 2022.
Rivian Q1 earnings expected to show electric vehicle demand rising
Expectations are that the earnings will show an increasing product demand, but consistent ongoing supply chain issues and skyrocketing rates of cash output.
Creative solutions are needed to narrow the generational labor gap
Emsi Burning Glass Technologies, an analytics software company, released a report referencing an aging population and many younger workers are leaving the workforce, altogether.
Main Street anticipating more Federal Reserve hikes
Higher interest rates mean consumers will pay more to borrow money from institutions.
Generic spec for all fleet applications are a thing of the past
A truck that is not spec’d accordingly for its service is much more likely to be an expensive asset to repair and maintain, rather than an ideal “designed-for-use” heavy duty vehicle.
Maritime insurance industry is risky business
he cost of running and maintaining steamships for shipping cargo across the sea is getting more expensive, as well as the product being moved.
Amazon.com seems to have finally flatlined
The tech company reported last week its most moderate sales growth in almost twenty years.
A $10 million verdict is the final straw for Illinois-based trucking company
Sullivan, Illinois-based trucking company Marvin Keller Trucking has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to a nuclear verdict in court, inflated fuel costs, and wild market conditions.
Used Class 8 now have a price tag of $100k on average
ACT Research has released their findings that used Class 8 vehicles have now reached at least $100k on average as of March 2022.
