convenience stores

Amazon Exec Maria Renz Heading to Gopuff 
Amazon Exec Maria Renz Heading to Gopuff 
April 15, 2022  |  Personnel

Former Amazon executive Maria Renz is leaving her SoFi position as executive vice president of consumer finance and wealth management to take the role of...

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As Competitors Develop In-House Digital C-Stores, Uber Eats Expands Third-Party Convenience Offerings
As Competitors Develop In-House Digital C-Stores, Uber Eats Expands Third-Party Convenience Offerings
March 29, 2022  |  Delivery

As leading food delivery aggregators seek out ways to drive more revenue from their costly driver networks, many are finding ways to grow their non-restaurant...

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Uber Eats Gets Into C-Store Delivery With bp
Uber Eats Gets Into C-Store Delivery With bp
March 29, 2022  |  Delivery

More than 3,000 bp retail locations will become available on the Uber Eats platform over the next three years to support the growing demand for...

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Boxy Expands Its Network of Autonomous Convenience Stores With $28M Raise
Boxy Expands Its Network of Autonomous Convenience Stores With $28M Raise
February 17, 2022  |  Investments

Autonomous convenience store startup Boxy has raised $28.4 million (25 million euros), fueling its plans to expand across its home country of France. As EU...

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WHSmith Opens Checkout-Free Store at LaGuardia Airport
WHSmith Opens Checkout-Free Store at LaGuardia Airport
February 16, 2022  |  Retail

Retailer WHSmith on Tuesday (Feb. 15) announced in a LinkedIn post that it has opened its first checkout-free store in LaGuardia Airport in New York....

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Grabango Adding Checkout-Free Tech to MAPCO Stores
Grabango Adding Checkout-Free Tech to MAPCO Stores
February 15, 2022  |  Retail

Checkout-free technology platform Grabango has partnered with convenience store chain MAPCO to add checkout-free operation to its locations across the southeastern U.S., starting in Tennessee,...

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Philippines’ B2B Platform GrowSari Raises $45M From KKR
Philippines’ B2B Platform GrowSari Raises $45M From KKR
January 26, 2022  |  Investments

Business-to-business (B2B) platform GrowSari raised $45 million from global investment firm KKR in an extended, oversubscribed Series C funding round, according to a press release...

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Poland’s Żabka Leads Europe’s Autonomous Store Race
Poland’s Żabka Leads Europe’s Autonomous Store Race
January 18, 2022  |  Retail

Żabka, the largest convenience store chain in Poland, says it now has the largest chain of autonomous stores in Europe. The company announced that milestone...

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Drone Trial Taking Place at 7-Eleven in Japan’s Fukuoka City
Drone Trial Taking Place at 7-Eleven in Japan’s Fukuoka City
January 11, 2022  |  Delivery

Convenience store 7-Eleven is trialing 20-minute deliveries by drone on Nokonoshima Island in Fukuoka City in Japan as part of Tokyo’s Project for Building Business...

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