Grubhub and Yandex SDG are teaming up to bring robot delivery to university campuses, even to places that are largely reachable only on foot. “Together with Yandex, we’re changing the way college students experience food delivery,” Brian Madigan, vice president of corporate and campus partners...
Among the many consequences of the eCommerce explosion of the last year-and-a-half or so has been a tremendous upgrade of consumers’ expectations of faster delivery. Two-day shipping – the standard a scant two years ago – has given way to next-day, same-day, same-afternoon and even...
Turns out, when consumers get used to ordering restaurant meals to be delivered straight to their door without ever having to put on their outdoor pants, they are not so quick to give up that on-demand convenience. The majority of United States adults are now...
As the walls separating restaurants and grocery stores continue to decay, DoorDash is using a (metaphorical) wrecking ball to speed up the process with its new partnership. The company announced Monday (June 28) that it is collaborating with plant-based protein company Beyond Meat to offer...
Russia’s busiest provider of instant grocery deliveries is planning to launch a U.S. service, beginning in August in New York, Bloomberg News reports. The Saint Petersburg-based company, Samokat, reportedly plans to call the U.S. service Buyk. The managers of Buyk hope to reach a volume...
FedEx suspended service for roughly 1,400 freight customers without warning this month, a move the company said was designed to relieve its overtaxed shipping network. As The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (June 24), the move surprised customers and left businesses scrambling to find a...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine worked with Uber Eats in order to help ease visibility into the discrepancies in pricing between the app and ordering in person, according to a press release. They want to make sure...
Did DoorDash just fire the first shot against Instacart? On Monday (June 21), the restaurant delivery service announced a partnership with grocery chain Albertsons Companies to provide one-hour grocery delivery from almost 2,000 stores of the grocers stores, including locations of the brands Safeway, Vons and...
DoorDash and grocery chain Albertsons Companies announced on Monday (June 21) in a news release that they will offer one-hour grocery delivery from almost 2,000 stores, among them some branded Safeway, Vons and Jewel-Osco locations. The companies stated in the release that customers will be...
