delivery

Why Benchmark Capital Put $50M Behind Good Eggs

Grocery is a big category. There’s brick-and-mortar retail, where competition is so fierce that the media has branded it “the grocery wars.”...

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Amazon Delivery

Amazon Takes Tough Stance On Returns

Remember that old saying, “You break it, you bought it?” A tweak on that might read: “You click on it, you bought...

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Amazon

Trump Wants USPS To Double Rates For Amazon

Months after President Donald Trump tweeted criticisms of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), news has surfaced that the president had personally asked...

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Home Depot Sees Strong Delivery Growth In Q1

As Home Depot ramps up its delivery efforts and focuses on its Pro customers, the home improvement retailer beat bottom-line, first-quarter earnings estimates,...

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Playing Chess With Amazon: Target’s Competitive Strategy

They say it’s healthier to eat several small meals throughout the day instead of two or three big ones. Can the same...

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Last Mile, Last Few Feet Means Thinking In Bulk For Delivery Players

The new mantra in last mile might be: Go big or go home. And it might be enough to change how some...

Gig Economy

Fiverr Launches Program To Make Cities ‘Gig Worker Friendly’

The gig life isn’t just for Uber drivers. And it’s not just about that much-reported millennial “side hustle” either. “Gig” is really...

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Chef’d Pushes Meal Kits Onto Store Shelves

With the recent news that Blue Apron has begun selling its meal kits in Costco, it’s perhaps unsurprising that competitors are also...

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Walmart Ends Grocery Delivery Partnerships With Uber, Lyft

Walmart has reportedly ended its online grocery delivery partnerships with Uber and Lyft, which could hurt its efforts to take on Amazon...

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Groupon And Grubhub Kick Off Partnership In Chicago

Hungry consumers in Chicago now can take part in the latest expansion of online food delivery programs. Groupon announced news on Tuesday (May...

Will Costco Cure Blue Apron’s Subscription Blues?

It’s not been easy to be Blue Apron in recent months. The meal kit company was one of the first to have...

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Blue Apron Looks To The Grocery Aisle After First Quarter Earnings

Meal kit delivery service Blue Apron is trying to build momentum beyond the first quarter as it eyes new sales channels to...

News

Five At Five: Mastercard Makes A Biometric Bet

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include a...

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Delivery Services Bridge The Gap From Farm To Table

Services like AmazonFresh and Peapod offer grocery delivery with a few clicks, but mainstream delivery services — or even local supermarkets — don’t...

Quenching Indie Alcohol Merchants’ Thirst For Data

Bottoms up! Bottom lines, that is: With the right data and analytics, independent alcohol retailers could stop playing the guessing game and...

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Warehouse Marketplaces Are The ‘Airbnb’ For CPG Brands

Sean Henry came to a revelation when he was working on a manufacturer’s supply chain: There was often a mismatch between warehouse...

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Truck Driver Shortage Worsens On eCommerce Pressures

A boom in eCommerce shipping, along with electronic driver monitoring devices, is making the already tight truck driver market worse, according to CNBC....

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Amazon

Amazon Grocery Delivery Expands To 3 New Cities

When Amazon launched Prime Now delivery for groceries out of its Whole Foods Marketpalce subsidiary, the company turned some heads — and...

Instacart Changes Its Default Suggested Tip For Drivers To 5 Percent

Instacart, the startup that will do your shopping for you and deliver it to your doorstep, announced news on Tuesday (April 24)...

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Meal Subscription Services Take On The School Lunch

The usual school lunch menu suspects — pizza and chicken nuggets — appeal to some students, but those options may not work...

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Amazon Rolls Out In-Car Delivery

Months after delivering packages inside customers’ homes, Amazon begins delivering purchases inside customers’ cars. The free service is only available to Prime members...

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Deliv To Offer Same-Day Delivery To Shopify Customers

Deliv, the delivery startup that enables retailers to provide same-day delivery, is now enabling Shopify retailers to offer its customers same-day delivery....

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Aggregation Apps Coordinate Rides And Food Deliveries

There are many on-demand apps, but few apps aggregate multiple services. Apps such as Accomplice, however, allow users to choose from multiple...

UPS Rolls Out My Choice Deals Program

In an effort to generate revenue directly through the products it delivers to consumers, the United Parcel Service (UPS) is launching a loyalty...

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Package Lockers Gain Ground At Apartments

Last mile? How about last few feet? The rise of the locker is a … lock. Amazon, of course, with heft and...

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Domino’s To Deliver Pizza To 150,000 Non-Traditional Locations

Domino’s Pizza announced news on Monday (April 16) that as of today, more than 150,000 Domino’s Hotspots are now active nationwide, enabling...

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Postmates Says It’s Generated $1.2B In Economic Activity

Postmates — in cooperation with Edelman Intelligence — set out to determine what effect the company has had, economically speaking, in the cities in...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

How Smaller Merchants Can Get Amazon-Style Logistics

Divey Gulati knows firsthand how challenging it can be for eCommerce merchants to fulfill and mail orders. After all, Gulati and a...

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Walmart Teams With Postmates To Deliver More Groceries To Homes

Walmart steps up its efforts to bring more groceries to people’s homes through an agreement with Postmates that will expand the company’s Online...

How DoorDash Bike Couriers Evolved From Telegram Messengers

Bikes have long been a useful medium for transporting goods. In late 1880s Paris, for example, messengers on bicycles delivered checks between...

Amazon Innovations

Amazon Unlocks New Features For Amazon Key

Expanding upon the in-home delivery feature of Amazon Key, Amazon has rolled out smart entry upgrades to all customers nationwide, such as...

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Late Shipments, On The Last Mile, Recognized Before The Fact

In the last mile, in carrier we trust. That is, both the customer and the merchant must rely on a third party...

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Warehouses Aren’t Keeping Up With eCommerce

Retail continues to migrate toward eCommerce, but warehouse space is not designed to keep up with the increasing pace of online orders....

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How Mom-And-Pop Pizzerias Can Tap Into Digital Orders

Behind many mom-and-pop pizzerias is an owner swamped with work. Their time in the restaurant often stretches long beyond the traditional eight-hour...

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Ridesharing

Urgent.ly To Offer Roadside Assistance To Uber Drivers, Delivery Partners

Urgent.ly, the roadside assistance platform, announced news on Tuesday (April 3) that it partnered with Uber to provide roadside assistance to its...

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UberRUSH Is Shutting Down At The End Of June

Uber’s UberRUSH, the delivery package service for merchants operating in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago is shuttering, reported TechCrunch. The...

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OpenPort’s Open Road To Digital Delivery Proof In Asia, Via Blockchain

Logistics, and the last mile, depend on documentation. The processes of finding where things are, where they’re headed and when they arrive...

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HelloFresh Passes Blue Apron As Biggest Meal Kit Company In The US

Following HelloFresh’s acquisition of Green Chef, the meal kit company has now overtaken Blue Apron’s share of the market. HelloFresh controls 36...

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eBay’s AR Box Feature Fits Into Larger Tech Plan

Shipping is a big deal in retail. The latest Omni Usage Report by PYMNTS and Vantiv noted that a quarter of consumers...

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FedEx Orders 20 Tesla Semi-Trucks

FedEx announced news on Monday (March 26) that it has reserved 20 Tesla semi-trucks, the fully electric trucks that are slated for...

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Whole Foods Stores With Amazon Lockers See Rise In ‘Micro’ Visits

Amazon Lockers may be encouraging shoppers to make quick trips to Whole Foods stores. Research from inMarket showed that “micro” visits —...

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How Small Food Merchants Can Tap Into Delivery Platforms

Cities around the world have many independent shops — butchers, bakers, cheesemongers and the like. But what they don’t always have is...