Five trends that could shape the future of fashion retail delivery
From drone delivery to underground pipe delivery, the future of delivery could look very different in the coming years.
In 2020, more than 100 billion packages were sent globally, and McKinsey & Company’s report,
The Future of Parcel Delivery: Drones and Disruption, forecasts this will double by 2030. By 2025, parcels are set to equal mail in volume.
Malcolm Wilson, chief executive of XPO Logistics Europe, tells Drapers that, as online shopping is growing, acceptable delivery windows are shrinking, and delivery times are now more important than ever for consumers: “Online shoppers expect their purchases to arrive in one day or less, so inventory positioning has never been more critical. This requires fashion retailers to take advantage of sophisticated logistics networks that use artificial intelligence and advanced automation to not only forecast future demand, but also place goods where they’re needed th
Apni Party holds convention; demands Statehood, elections
Apni Party holds convention; demands Statehood, elections
Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 2: Apni Party today organised a one-day Party Workers Convention at Udhampur to discuss the current political situation while seeking restoration of Statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
The one-day Party Workers Convention was organised by the District President, Udhampur, Hans Raj Dogra and Ex-MLA Chenani Faqir Nath. The convention was attended by the senior leaders of the party from Jammu and they had threadbare discussion on the present political situation.
“The people in J&K have suffered worse since August 2019 without an elected Government Development is going on with snail pace and the officers are not responsive to the grievances in many of the cases especially in rural and hilly areas,” said Provincial President, Jammu, and former Minister, Manjit Singh.
State governments feuded over oxygen and seized tankers, creating bottlenecks and delays.
Delhi city officials didn’t build systems to produce or store oxygen and struggled to allocate dwindling supplies. When tight supplies and government missteps led oxygen to run out at Jaipur Golden, some families said the hospital offered no warning.
Without a comprehensive coronavirus plan, Modi’s government has left much of the burden to states, cities, hospitals and even individuals. The oxygen crisis tragically revealed the limits of a do-it-yourself approach.
That approach will be tested again. Though infections have dropped, a vaccine shortage puts India at risk of a third wave. Without adequate preparations, the second wave’s tragedies could return. “With an effective surge plan,” said Robert Matiru, a director at Unitaid, a health initiative affiliated with the World Health Organisation, “this could have been averted.”
At 9.45pm, alarms blared across the intensive care unit of Jaipur Golden Hospital. Over two dozen patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Some flailed their arms and legs. Others cried for help, choking sounds coming from their throats as if they were being strangled.
Mechanics sprinted to the maintenance room to see what was wrong. Nurses grabbed small plastic pumps to fill the lungs of critically ill patients by hand.
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It wasn’t enough. Jaipur Golden, a respected hospital in Delhi, had run out of medical oxygen. Over the next seven hours, 21 coronavirus patients died.
“Nobody can forget that night,” said Shaista Nigar, the hospital’s nursing superintendent. “It was a total breakdown.”
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