Uber is paying $2.3 billion to acquire catering and workplace meal platform ezCater, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 6) news release. The all-cash deal is designed to combine ezCater’s catering and B2B expertise, Uber Eats’ global reach among consumers and restaurants, and Uber for Business’s...
UPS has introduced a suite of supply chain solutions aimed at addressing risk, uncertainty and logistical obstacles. The company’s Secure Commerce offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), is designed to offer “data-driven intelligence,” actionable insights and “proactive risk management” to help reduce threats like fraud, delivery issues or...
In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost...
Costco’s third-party same-day delivery offering is helping draw younger customers to the retailer, CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday (Sept. 24) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Costco highlighted its expansion of third-party same-day delivery channels in the United States in a presentation released Thursday, saying that this is...
September 17, 2026
Amazon needs more than faster warehouses to close Walmart’s delivery advantage. It may need to build and manufacture its own version of a neighborhood store network. Amazon knows this, and the digital retail giant is already acting on it strategically. Project Mercury, Amazon’s plan, reported on Wednesday (Sept. 16), to expand its same-day delivery hubs […]
July 25, 2026
Spain took home the trophy. The digital economy took everything else: our attention, our sleep, our snack budgets and, apparently, our remaining sense of distance. Uber data supplied to PYMNTS...
June 11, 2026
Ecosystems now scale more efficiently than stores, and that new reality is transforming retail. Amazon announced Wednesday (June 10) that it is expanding its Supply Chain Services platform with a...
April 10, 2026
Imagine buying a high-amp car battery, a crocheted purse and a bag of fresh groceries all in one go without thinking twice about where to shop. That’s the line Amazon...
October 07, 2026
UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal employees in hundreds of locations across the United States to meet the demand of the upcoming holiday shipping season, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. These seasonal employees will join UPS’s global workforce that numbers around 460,000, according to the release. The number of seasonal employees […]
October 06, 2026
Uber is paying $2.3 billion to acquire catering and workplace meal platform ezCater, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 6) news release. The all-cash deal is designed to combine ezCater’s catering...
September 30, 2026
UPS has introduced a suite of supply chain solutions aimed at addressing risk, uncertainty and logistical obstacles. The company’s Secure Commerce offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), is designed to offer “data-driven intelligence,”...
September 25, 2026
Costco’s third-party same-day delivery offering is helping draw younger customers to the retailer, CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday (Sept. 24) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Costco highlighted its expansion of third-party...
