Over the last year, consumers have been well-trained to the idea that anything worth having can be ordered online and delivered to their door. Food, clothes, entertainment — name the object or activity, and there’s a firm(s) that will find a way to either deliver...
Shack Shack’s push into the digital realm continued Wednesday (March 17) with the chain’s announcement that it would launch its own nationwide in-app delivery service through Uber Eats. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
New England meal delivery service Feast & Fettle is not competing against the third-party aggregator giants — it does not aggregate anything. Instead, the company is one part meal delivery service, one part gourmet ghost kitchen chain. The service, which began in Rhode Island and...
On Monday (March 8), Uber Eats’ former head of product Daniel Danker announced via Twitter he has left the company to join Instacart as vice president of shopper and fulfillment, days after The Information initially broke the news. The news comes as Instacart is looking...
As London-based meal delivery service Deliveroo gears up to go public, its revenues are plummeting. Even as the United Kingdom’s lockdowns have incentivized many consumers to order food delivery more often, with Deliveroo CEO Will Shu estimating the pandemic “accelerated consumer adoption of these delivery services by...
The past year has seen a massive shift in habits across demographics. For many consumers, this meant tending toward grocery stores where previously they would have dined out or switching to off-premise ordering instead of eating in restaurants. On campuses across America, students had to...
Deliveroo is rolling out a new £50 million Communities Fund to give more aid to local communities where the company operates, along with restaurant partners and riders, a press release says. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Albertsons, the country’s second-largest grocery store chain, is partnering with automated logistics startup Tortoise to pilot the beta launch of a robotic fleet of Safeway delivery carts in the towns of Tracy and Windsor in Northern California. Albertsons acquired Safeway in a $9.2 billion merger...
Concerned it could lose out by having a traditional initial public offering (IPO), Instacart is mulling the idea of going public through a direct listing, Reuters reported Friday (March 5), citing sources. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery company has yet to make a final decision on its...
