Delivery startup Gopuff is launching expansion efforts into France and is currently serving all of Paris, most of Île-de-France, and parts of Marseille, Lille and Toulouse, with plans to branch across the entire country. Yakir Gola, co-founder and co-CEO of Gopuff, said in a press release on...
Uber is growing its German delivery business and plans to include 70 cities by the end of the year, expanding on its current roster of 14 cities, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 1). Uber is growing its food delivery business because of robust demand, according to...
Gorillas Technologies, a grocery delivery startup operating in the U.K., U.S. and France, is looking to raise over half a billion dollars in new financing this year, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 25). Gorillas is one of the bigger companies delivering groceries and other things, purporting...
Where in early 2020 Instacart was the clear go-to for consumers looking to order from their preferred grocer online for curbside pickup or delivery, today the landscape has shifted. Leading restaurant aggregators including DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub are rapidly expanding their grocery offerings, and...
Instacart, the online grocery delivery platform, has partnered with Lowe’s to pilot same-day delivery, a company blog from Instacart said Wednesday (Feb. 23). That will let customers have around 20,000 items from Lowe’s delivered, including small home appliances, building supplies, light fixtures and garden and...
New York City may ban grocery delivery apps from advertising 15-minute delivery, the promise on which ultrafast grocers have built their following. Councilman Christopher Marte intends to introduce a bill prohibiting these guarantees in coming weeks, arguing that they lead to traffic law violations, endangering...
New York City Councilman Christopher Marte will introduce a bill that would ban on-demand grocery apps from advertising that they will deliver in 15 minutes, saying such a practice threatens worker and pedestrian safety, according to a report in The New York Post Monday (Feb....
Meituan, the Chinese food delivery company, lost $26 billion in value as of Friday after regulators wanted to lower fees food platforms are charging restaurants, Financial Times says. The crackdown comes as China has had numerous government restrictions on the tech sector, mostly intended to...
It’s axiomatic that we now live in an on-demand delivery world. As merchants and their wheeled partners attempt logistical alchemy around that dreaded last mile, our thoughts turn to what is being delivered, and the requests that ride along. No, not burritos and salads. We...
