DoorDash customers can now order dinner by sending a text. The company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) agent works inside Apple’s Messages, builds the cart and handles checkout without the DoorDash app ever opening. DoorDash unveiled the text-to-order agent on Wednesday (Sept. 30) and opened a...
A $10 purchase that can wait until tomorrow is one kind of retail transaction. A $10 item that keeps a customer from finishing a repair, taking medicine or charging a device is another. Ultrafast delivery is giving retailers a way to find out what the...
Home improvement retailer Lowe’s is testing drone delivery in Charlotte, N.C., saying in a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release that this fulfillment method gets select items to directly to do-it-yourself and professional customers in as little as 20 minutes. This offering is powered by Wing...
Dollar General is expanding its delivery options through a new partnership with Instacart, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. The partnership gives customers access to the discount retailer’s food, household goods, health and beauty products and other everyday essentials through Instacart’s app and...
Costco and Uber Technologies expanded their partnership to offer Costco delivery through Uber Eats in 47 states in the United States, up from the previous 17, Uber said in a Wednesday (Sept. 16) press release. The expansion enables Costco members in 47 states to order...
Amazon plans to increase its number of same-day delivery hubs from 85 to more than 1,000 by 2031, Seeking Alpha reported Wednesday (Sept. 16), citing a paywalled article by Business Insider. Amazon internal planning documents show that the initiative, dubbed Project Mercury, would place same-day...
Walmart is reportedly expanding its restaurant delivery program with a new partnership with Papa John’s. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 10), Walmart says food from the pizza chain can be delivered in 30 minutes or less from the retailer’s website or app, either on their own or as...
Walmart has announced an addition to its three-month-old restaurant delivery service. After teaming with Subway on deliveries in June, the retail giant announced Thursday (Sept. 3) that it is expanding the program to include Inspire Brands, a restaurant company whose portfolio includes Dunkin’. As with...
Customers of The Kroger Co. banners Fred Meyer, Ralphs and Harris Teeter can now have groceries and eligible prescriptions delivered in one order, Kroger said in a Monday (Aug. 24) press release. This capability is delivered through the company’s websites and apps, and it is...