Archive for July 2026

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…