Suppliers are scrambling to meet Walmart’s tighter standards for delivery performance — and they can expect the giant retailer to keep raising the bar.

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Nobody profits when drivers wait in the loading dock of a distribution center for teams to load or unload their trucks. It costs everybody in food retail. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimates “detention time” costs trucking companies $3 billion a year and, if you carry that over to the larger economy, the price the public ultimately pays is closer to $6.5 billion a year.