Rod Sims, the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, said Monday (April 23) that he would look at contracts Uber has with restaurants that use its Uber Eats food delivery service. Reuters, citing comments Sims made to ABC radio, reported that the watchdog will...
Watch out, Grubhub: Uber Eats is currently the fastest-growing meal delivery service in the U.S. According to Recode, Uber Eats is bringing in nearly as much new customer revenue as Grubhub, with customers spending more on Uber Eats than on any other food delivery service...
Last mile? How about last few feet? The rise of the locker is a … lock. Amazon, of course, with heft and scale, has entered the market in a big way: Late last year the eCommerce giant began signing contracts with apartment operators to install...
As of this month (April), Target customers in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C. will find it easier to get the goods they want that much faster. According to reports, the retailer announced that about 60 new stores will be adding same-day...
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 customers to receive delivery orders in locations that don’t have traditional addresses — like a park, sports field or a beach. In a...
Postmates — in cooperation with Edelman Intelligence — set out to determine what effect the company has had, economically speaking, in the cities in which it operates. Using data from 2017 to the present day — and tapping information from the 300 U.S. markets where the food...
President Donald Trump, a few days after ratcheting up his attacks on Amazon, has issued an executive order Thursday (April 12) that will create a task force to look at how to improve the U.S. Postal Service. According to the report in The Wall Street Journal,...
Divey Gulati knows firsthand how challenging it can be for eCommerce merchants to fulfill and mail orders. After all, Gulati and a co-founder once had their own eCommerce business. “We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce...
Boxed, known as the “Costco for millennials,” has launched its first paid-membership tier that will offer customers rewards and discounts. “All the best services have some sort of subscription model,” Ashish Prashar, Boxed’s head of communications, told Business Insider. “People will pay for that premium...
