Strategic activity from leading distributors like Ferguson, Grainger and Fastenal led to the most-read blogs of October 2020.
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Online giant now hiring for 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York (Manhattan), Phoenix, and San Diego, where it will invest more than $1.4 billion as part of a larger growth plan.
Amazon's new fulfillment center and delivery station in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex town will create hundreds of new full-time jobs and give the company faster delivery times in the area.
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More than 13,000 health care and 7,000 government organizations have purchased PPE and other supplies through COVID-19 Supplies site on Amazon Business.
Though the fallout for distributors from COVID-19 continued to be a hot topic in April, news on Amazon Business garnered the most attention from MDM readers during the month. New data show the enormous number of SKUs available on the platform and that it may be poised to become the top industrial distributor in the U.S.
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Retail giant ramping up competition with FedEx, UPS and Alibaba.
