Archive for July 2026

Something shifted in the first half of 2026. Companies that spent the past two years trimming warehouse footprints and renegotiating shorter leases reversed course in a big way. According to CBRE’s latest industrial leasing report, leases on U.S. properties with at least one million square feet more than doubled, jumping from 16 in H1 2025…

The demos are incredible. An AI agent reroutes a shipment around a port closure in seconds. A digital twin simulates three weeks of warehouse throughput before lunch. A chatbot pulls invoice discrepancies from a pile of 10,000 documents without breaking a sweat. Then you try to deploy it. And the whole thing falls apart. New…

Last week, Coca-Cola disclosed that a ransomware attack forced it to suspend all U.S. production at Fairlife, its billion-dollar dairy subsidiary. The company filed an SEC report, called in cybersecurity experts, and notified law enforcement. Canadian operations stayed open. American ones went dark. The attack didn’t poison any products. It didn’t compromise consumer data (as…

Lululemon just flipped the switch on a 1-million-square-foot distribution center in Brampton, Ontario. Inside, 525 robots glide across an aluminum grid, pulling from 292,000 storage bins to deliver inventory to human workers at pick stations below. It’s one of the largest automated distribution operations in North America, and it didn’t happen by accident. The facility,…

The U.S. Postal Service just admitted something uncomfortable: it can’t reliably tell you where your package is. During a Senate committee hearing last week, Postmaster General David Steiner described a system where wedding invitations arrive after the wedding and bills show up past their due date. His fix? Deploying Bluetooth Low Energy beacons and bidirectional…