Delivery On Demand news and trends

Shopify Integrating Deliverr to Build ‘Elastic Warehouse Capacity’

March 15, 2023
Sally Beauty to Close 350 Stores and Ramp Up Omnichannel Services
Retail // November 10, 2022

Sally Beauty Holdings, a retailer and distributor of hair color and care products for both consumers and salon professionals, is working to optimize its footprint by consolidating its stores and distribution centers while continuing to serve its customers via its omnichannel capabilities, the company said...

Aggregators Step Up Efforts to Offer Everything On-Demand
Delivery // November 09, 2022

Leading U.S. food delivery service DoorDash is expanding its selection of cosmetics, a lightweight, high-cost category that racks-up large order values while taking up minimal space in drivers’ cars. In a company announcement Wednesday (Nov. 9), DoorDash said it is partnering with Sephora to deliver from more than 500 of...

Restaurants Outpace Aggregators 2-to-1 in Online Ordering
Delivery // October 31, 2022

In the battle for digital orders, restaurants are way ahead of third-party aggregators. By the Numbers Research from this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Restaurant Digital Divide report, “The 2022 Restaurant Digital Divide: Restaurant Apps And Websites In The Spotlight,” which draws from a census-balanced survey of nearly...

Grubhub: Virtual Brands Are ‘More Popular’ with Independent Operators
Connected Economy // June 14, 2022

At the height of the pandemic, many in the restaurant industry predicted that the rapid proliferation of ghost kitchens and virtual brands was premature, arguing that the model would not prove sustainable once consumers were able to return to restaurants. Now, however, even as dining...

Interviews & Exclusives
Chowbus CEO: Building A Food-Delivery Platform For Mom-And-Pop Restaurants

September 03, 2020
The difficulties restaurants face with big delivery platforms like Grubhub or Uber Eats have been extensively cataloged. Critics claim the platforms take too big a bite out of restaurants’ revenues, diminish restaurateurs’ abilities to develop direct relationships with customers and create logistical headaches as they come in to make pick-ups. And for small restaurants — […]

Quick Reads
Shopify Integrating Deliverr to Build ‘Elastic Warehouse Capacity’

March 15, 2023
Shopify is building an “elastic warehouse capacity” that’s more flexible than that of Amazon. As Shopify continues to integrate Deliverr — the eCommerce fulfillment and order storage provider it acquired for $2.1 billion last year — it’s finding that it can build a distribution network that is cost-effective for its merchants, offers speedy delivery to the merchants’ customers and gives […]

Sally Beauty to Close 350 Stores and Ramp Up Omnichannel Services

November 10, 2022
Sally Beauty Holdings, a retailer and distributor of hair color and care products for both consumers and salon professionals, is working to optimize its footprint by consolidating its stores and...

Amazon Tests Same-Day Mall Deliveries

May 20, 2022
Amazon.com Inc. delivery drivers are fetching packages from mall stores and dropping the goods off at consumers’ homes under a plan the company is testing, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 20)....

Alcohol Gets A Buzz From The ‘Bring It To Me’ Economy

May 05, 2021
Amid the pandemic, to paraphrase an old Eagles tune:  Some drink to remember; some drink to forget. But, as the data tell us — we drink, if not the same...