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850Intelligence of ThingsFood In Flight: Delivering Mobile Orders By Drone
While players like Uber Eats and Grubhub seek to optimize delivery by car, tech providers look to the skies to capture their...
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1.2KIntelligence of ThingsTRENDING: Giving Food Delivery A Drone-Powered Lift
While there’s growing interest in Intelligence of Things (IoT) adoption among such industries as mining, maritime and transportation, many businesses don’t know...
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1.3KEarningsYelp’s Shares Zoom As Alexa Looms
Though normally the firm behind the review, today (Aug. 10) was Yelp‘s turn to solicit investor reviews as it reported its Q2...
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2.0KAmazon LoyaltyThe Evolution Of The Amazon Prime Ecosystem
The world was a very different place in February 2005 when Amazon first introduced its loyalty program: Prime. There was no such...
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1.5KDeliveryeCommerce, Delivery Firms Turn Attention To Supply Chain, Logistics
As eCommerce and delivery companies fight an increasingly tough battle to streamline costs and compete for customers, a number of firms are...
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2.6KDeliveryCould Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?
Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition...
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2.6KeCommerceWalmart Testing Robots To Fill Grocery Orders More Quickly
Taking a page from Amazon.com, Walmart announced late last week that it will be testing robots to help it fill online grocery...
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1.3KRetailRetail Pulse: Brookstone Files For Bankruptcy; Kroger Launches New Delivery Service
Brookstone, a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. But shopping malls aren’t nearly...
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1.8KRetailChairish And UPS Team To Solve Sellers’ Big Shipping Friction
Today, the wait — quite literally — could be over. That is, the wait between that moment when a buyer purchases that...
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1.5KRetailWalmart Revamps Delivery Service With Georgia Pilot
After announcing an experimental plan last year for store employees to deliver online orders following their shifts for extra pay, Walmart has...
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2.4KRetailCustom-Building A Good Night’s Sleep
It seems as of late that everyone is trying to sell you a mattress in a box. If one wants a mattress...
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2.8KEarningsDomino’s Raises Tech Spend, As Q2 Growth Stalls
Domino’s Pizza disappointed Wall Street investors on Thursday (July 19) after the world’s leading pizza chain reported slower-than-expected growth during the second...
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1.4KRetailTarget Boasts Its Biggest Shopping Day Of The Year
Amazon wasn’t the only online retailer who had a record-breaking day on Tuesday (July 17) – Target also saw its highest single...
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1.3KRetailShippingEasy Teams Up With Wish Marketplace
In order to help Wish users with their shipping needs, ShippingEasy has integrated into the marketplace’s shopping app. Through the partnership, Wish...
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1.5KDeliveryUPS, Latch Pair On Last-Mile Delivery Security
UPS is providing increased security to its customers through a pilot with Latch smart access devices that will allow its drivers to...
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3.4KPayments InnovationHow Uncertainty Kills Commerce
Scientists say that humans have a lot in common with mice. Both species, a new study conducted by researchers at the University...
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2.6KRetailWalmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business
As Walmart is refocusing its efforts in the U.S. and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a...
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2.4KNewsFive At Five: Walmart’s New Plan To Win Over NYC
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the main payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes...
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1.5KBusinessDeliveroo Expands Its Shared Kitchen Program
Cooking is often about community. That ancient idea has found new — and revenue-enhancing — life this week in the news that...
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1.9KDeliveryThe Future Of Retail Deliveries With Autonomous Vehicles
When it comes to online orders, retailers selling groceries — or even takeout food — face a constant balancing act: How can...
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1.5KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Expands Food Deliveries
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes a look at an...
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1.8KRetailAmazon Announces Next Whole Foods Delivery Expansion
Grocery delivery for Prime members is taking its next great leap forward as Amazon and Whole Foods have announced that Prime Now...
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3.8KResTechOlo And Punchh Partner On Teriyaki Madness Mobile Ordering, Loyalty Platform
Olo and Punchh, two of the leading names in mobile order ahead, have joined forces on a new mobile ordering app for...
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2.7KeCommerceJD.Com Rakes In $24.6B During 618 Shopping Festival
JD.com‘s annual 618 Shopping Festival was a big success for the Chinese eCommerce player, raking in $24.6 billion, according to new data...
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4.1KRetailAmazon Expands Whole Foods Savings Perks For Prime Members
To provide Prime members with additional perks at Whole Foods, Amazon is rolling out an expanded discount program starting on Wednesday (June...
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6.1KPayments InnovationAre Retailers Ready For Amazon’s Prime Time?
My plan on Friday evening was to write a hard-hitting piece on a services segment with incredible marketplace friction. Then I went...
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2.0KAmazonAmazon Rolls Out Prime Wardrobe To US Prime Members
Following a beta accessible by invitation only, Amazon is rolling out Prime Wardrobe to all of its U.S. Prime customers. An executive...
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1.2KRetailSupermercato24 Notches €13M In Series B Funding
As Supermercato24 seeks to expand its service to new retail markets, the Italian grocery delivery service has raised €13 million in Series...
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2.2KAmazonAmazon Expands Locker Delivery Hub Nationwide
Amazon announced it has expanded Hub by Amazon, a delivery solution for apartments, which is now available for installation across the United...
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2.5KRetailAggregator Apps And Delivery Drive Consumer QSR Preferences
Quick service restaurants (QSRs) are the consumer’s go-to for good food served fast. In fact, QSRs account for 57 percent of foot...
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6.0KPayments InnovationAmazon: QSRs’ Big Threat Or Essential Lifeline?
The restaurant industry today is a study in contradictions. Census data tells us that roughly 44 percent of what consumers spend on...
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1.6KDeliverySecuring The Last Mile Through Wi-Fi-Enabled Locks
The lock, modernized? The package thief, thwarted as a result? The last mile, for all its logistics, for all its twists and...
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1.3KRetailHome Depot Invests $1.2B To Speed Up Deliveries
With eCommerce changing customer expectations, Home Depot is planning on investing $1.2 billion to facilitate quicker deliveries to homes and job sites....
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1.6KNewsFive at Five: Facebook Faces New Scrutiny Over Data
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. First up, there is...
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2.2KSizzle/FizzleSizzle Fizzle: Last Mile Sizzles, Banks Fizzle And Snapchat Splits The Difference
Snapchat’s Sizzly Fizzle, or Fizzly Sizzle Usually in this column the sizzles and the fizzles are pretty distinct. But every so often...
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1.9KNewsFive At Five: Target Raises Its Delivery Game
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today brings news of...
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2.1KRetailTarget Raises Delivery Game To Fend Off Amazon/Walmart
Target is now more than halfway through its rollout of same-day delivery, care of Shipt and the launch of Drive Up, its...
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2.0KDeliveryComing Soon: Hamburgers By Drone In The Burbs
The last mile has its challenges — faced on land, over roads, amid ocean waves and in the air. Yet among the...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsMastercard’s Menendez: Solving Freight’s Big Payment Frictions
Mary found the perfect deck furniture while shopping online. The process couldn’t have been easier: All it took was a quick search...
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1.8KRetailPatent Applications Offer A Peek Into Walmart’s Possible Techy Future
And the award for “techiest” retailer goes to … Walmart? The big-box retailer recently published a number of patent filings that would...
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2.4KRetailWalmart Launches Order By Text
The one-upmanship competition that seems to be perennially on between Amazon and Walmart has just gotten its latest entry. Walmart has announced...
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2.4KRetailWhy Panera Does Its Own Delivery
Delivery on demand is one of the hallmarks of the mobile/digital era, and so it’s unsurprising the speed at which being able...
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1.9KSizzle/FizzleThe Gig Economy Sizzles, Autonomous Cars Fizzle And Victoria’s Secret Needs To Bring Sexy Back
Fizzle of the Week: Victoria’s Secret The results are in for Victoria Secret’s Q1 performance, and they’re nothing to swoon over. Following...
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1.4KRetailApps Simplify Beverage Orders For Bars And Distributors
Beverage managers are often faced with a dilemma: how to simplify the process of ordering alcohol from multiple distributors. To create an...
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2.5KNewsFive At Five: McDonald’s, Uber Eats Team Up For Breakfast
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories focus on...
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1.9KDeliveryAmid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom
Keep on truckin’ — if you can find the drivers. The Washington Post reported that the trucking industry, that linchpin of last-mile...
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2.8KInnovationAhold Delhaize USA Launches Peapod Digital Labs
Ahold Delhaize USA, the supermarket operator, announced news on Tuesday (May 22) that it is creating a new entity dubbed Peapod Digital...
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2.6KAmazonYou Could Do Worse Than Quit A Warehouse Job At Amazon
Amazon puts significant effort toward loyalty, as shown recently by its push to extend Prime discounts to Whole Foods shoppers, a move...
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2.2KRetailWhy 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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2.8KAmazon DeliveryAmazon 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...
