Energy: Automating to Solve the Last-Mile Problem
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
With the rise of two-day and next-day shipping, figuring out how to get products from a warehouse to customers’ doors is becoming ever more important to business success. However, this problem is more complicated than it might seem. To solve this, more and more companies are turning to automation. Motley Fool Contributor Dan Kline joins to the show to break down what we should expect to see as technology transforms logistics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is Thursday, October 3rd, and we're talking last mile delivery. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Nick Saipold, and today I'm joined in studio by Molly |
| 0:13.0 | full contributor Dan Klein. What's going on Dan? |
| 0:15.0 | Not too much, how are you? I am doing all right. You are in town because the two of |
| 0:19.2 | us are going to the very first AEW TV taping tonight. |
| 0:23.5 | For folks who aren't familiar with this, |
| 0:25.7 | can you give them the rundown? |
| 0:27.2 | So basically, this is the alternative to W. |
| 0:30.9 | And we've done a couple of shows on W. W. W. W. W. W. This is the first wrestling promotion that's on a major |
| 0:36.1 | network TNT that has real strong financial backing and they're using sort of more |
| 0:41.0 | of a sports-based promotion so or presentation so instead of |
| 0:45.8 | sort of some of the comedy some of the soap opera you're going to get a little bit |
| 0:49.0 | more wins and losses and it's some names you know or names we know and really a lot of sort of up-and-coming |
| 0:55.6 | talents but sold out in a what 16,000 seat arena? Yeah I mean it's it's the |
| 1:00.7 | first time there's been a legitimate challenge to W. W. W. W. |
| 1:05.0 | ended you know late 90s so I will see how it goes exciting times if you're a wrestling |
| 1:10.2 | fan if you're not maybe not as exciting. I was going to say we'll follow |
| 1:13.5 | this up on a consumer good show at some point. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. But as I |
| 1:18.5 | mentioned off the top our main topic today is Last Mile Logistics and I think this is particularly relevant these days |
| 1:24.6 | because with Amazon and others more and more popularity of one day same day |
| 1:29.5 | shipping that sort of thing and those things are really cool for a consumer but they aren't |
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