| Author: | Guild, A. |
| Title: | Boarding party |
| Journal: | Business
1990 : AUG, p. 84-87 |
| Index terms: | GROCERY SHOPS TRANSPORT DISTRIBUTION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Review of wooden pallet UK-Australian JV to launch "third-party pallet pooling" in the US, hiring pallets to grocery manufacturers and distributors. US grocery distribution. Network of depots. Hire fee. Mainframe computer to process and control deliveries. US grocery business turnover. Lack of supply of good quality pallets. Use of slipsheets and clamps. Pool concept in UK. Asset protection team to recover missing pallets. Court cases against dealers. Assertion of legal right to pallets. Through-palletization, from point of manufacture to retail distribution centre and supermarket. |
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