Prosus, the largest consumer internet company in Europe, wants to expand its grocery services through the use of “dark stores,” Bloomberg reported Monday (June 21), noting its plans come at a time of fierce competition among global food delivery services. The dark stores, which are small...
Instacart, an online grocery platform in North America, has launched its service in Montreal — and in French. The company already operates in the U.S. and Canada, but until now has been only available in English. The new feature will mean that the delivery and...
Uber has distributed $4.5 million to 900 local restaurants around the U.S. as part of its Eat Local Support Effort, the company announced. Most of the recipients of this grant funding were women or people of color, “who we know have been among those hardest...
Retail behemoth Walmart is strengthening its partnership with the on-demand drone delivery startup DroneUp in an effort to speed delivery and meet increasing consumer demand to have goods delivered to their doorstep. Walmart first partnered with DroneUp — operator of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS)...
In journeying the last mile, and getting goods where they need to go on the last stretch of transportation — to Point B, as in “points A to B” — the nod is increasingly toward the robots, or toward automation in general. Recent announcements underscore...
The bring-it-me economy is here – and given recent headlines, it’s here to stay. The digital shift has taken root deeply with consumers. Even now, as the vaccine allows locations to reopen, consumers are set in their newly developed eCommerce ways, as players work to enable fast...
Online grocery delivery ordering has surged since the start of the pandemic, as a behavior that may have initially started as a safety measure has since become a habit. However, as much as consumers have grown used to the ease of deliveries right at their...
UPS is launching a pilot program to explore how a same-day delivery model could work for the company, which is among the biggest global shipping and logistics providers worldwide, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. “We don’t have a same-day product today, as you know,...
Amazon and U.S. delivery company Gopuff, which is backed by SoftBank, are both looking at buying up Germany-based Flink, sources told Bloomberg. Flink has already spurned a bid from Gopuff. The status of Amazon’s and Gopuff’s competing buyout bids is unclear, but delivery apps are...
