Amazon will have FedEx deliver large packages to the retailer’s customers for the first time in six years. The companies reached a multiyear agreement that renews a relationship that ended in 2019, Bloomberg reported Monday (May 12). The deal follows a January announcement by UPS...
FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam said Thursday (April 24) that the logistics giant is using advanced data analytics and AI to navigate complex global trade disruptions — the latest of which are U.S. tariffs. “Things are changing by the minute,” Subramaniam said during a fireside chat...
DHL is suspending shipments valued at more than $800 to U.S. consumers. The new policy, flagged in a report by the Financial Times (FT) Sunday (April 20), is set to go into effect Monday (April 21), in response to regulatory changes by U.S. customs. According...
Instacart has debuted a tool to help distributors close gaps in their supply chains. Will Call Delivery, announced Wednesday (April 2), is designed to make sure distributors can meet same-day “fill-in” orders — also known as “hot shot” deliveries. “For more than a decade, Instacart...
Domino’s Pizza has joined the DoorDash Marketplace, starting the rollout of a collaboration in which orders can be placed on the local commerce platform and delivered by the pizza company’s drivers. The companies are piloting this collaboration in select locations and plan to launch it...
DoorDash will pay a $16.7 million settlement following an investigation into its tipping practices. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the settlement Monday (Feb. 24), saying her office had found that the delivery platform between 2017 and 2019 had misled its customers and workers...
Uber is accusing DoorDash of “coercive” behavior in a new lawsuit against its delivery rival. The suit, as reported Friday (Feb. 14) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), alleges that DoorDash pushes restaurants to work exclusively with its delivery service, threatening higher commission rates for...
DoorDash is seeing a growing share of consumers order from not only its initial offering — restaurants — but also its new verticals that include a growing variety of retailers. “Consumers are continuing to utilize new verticals,” DoorDash Chief Financial Officer Ravi Inukonda said Tuesday...
Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani envisions autonomous delivery robots transforming urban logistics by optimizing the pickup and delivery of food and other products to lower the cost of last-mile delivery for businesses. This year, it is planning to deploy 2,000 Uber Eats delivery robots —...