As DoorDash continues to fight against perceptions that its model is harmful to local businesses, the company announced Monday (March 14) a new accelerator program, this time with the goal of supporting small consumer packaged goods (CPG) businesses owned by people from marginalized groups. The...
Deliveright, a final-mile digital delivery platform, is working with open software-as-a-service (SaaS) eCommerce company BigCommerce to simplify delivering heavy goods through automation, a press release said Thursday (March 10). BigCommerce merchants will be able to take control of all stages of fulfillment, from the point...
Hoping to capitalize on a post-pandemic return to at-home gatherings, Uber Eats has launched a series of new features for its Group Ordering function, the delivery service announced Wednesday (March 9). Among these features is bill splitting, where users “can create a group and allow...
Demand for food delivery remains high even as ongoing inflation and labor challenges put additional pressures on the channel that was never economically sound to begin with. See also: Delivery Aggregator Losses Point to Economic Value of Platform Model Against this backdrop, businesses have been...
As food delivery aggregators look to improve the economics of their business model by diversifying into new categories, DoorDash is getting into office supply delivery. The company announced Monday (March 7) that it has partnered with Office Depot to offer delivery from more than 1,000...
DoorDash, the U.S. food delivery company, wanted to take over Britain’s Deliveroo, but the companies weren’t able to reach an agreement, Bloomberg reported Sunday (March 6). The merger, initially considered last summer, would have made a food delivery company with £4 billion ($5.2 billion) in sales....
Good news came this week for residents of Assiut, Zagazig, Ismailia and Port Said who have been seeking a food delivery service. Talabat Mart, the online company that promises 20-minute deliveries, announced it has expanded to those regions. The company said it uses exclusive order,...
Months after expanding into the U.K. and a day following its launch in France, U.S. delivery startup Gopuff is weighing the status of its workforce across the pond. Gopuff rolled out in the U.K. in November 2021 with the acquisitions of Dija and Fancy, which...
Estimates for the number of U.S. prescriptions dispensed in 2021 hover around 4.4 billion. Let that sink in as you also imagine the countless telehealth and office visits, phone calls, text messages and recurring refills generating that mountain of medication orders. More mindboggling still is...
