In Germany, the food delivery space is growing more competitive. Weeks after the Financial Times reported that Uber Eats is launching in the “strategically important country,” placing its service in competition with Netherlands-based delivery service Just Eat Takeaway.com’s “monopolistic” lead in the country, Berlin-based delivery...
Meal-delivering companies from Chipotle to Uber Eats to Domino’s and grocery giants from Safeway to Walmart to Kroger have all made moves into the autonomous delivery space. Now, Coca-Cola may be quietly getting into the game — Coca-Cola-owned coffee shop chain Costa Coffee is testing...
Delivery platform DoorDash is teaming up with convenience pharmaceutical company Rite Aid for delivery of everyday needs in as little as two hours, according to a Tuesday (May 11) press release. “Amidst the pandemic, we accelerated our momentum into new categories to address consumers’ heightened needs...
Digital delivery platform Instacart is teaming up with organization retailer The Container Store to offer same-day delivery throughout the U.S. The national partnership will bring same-day and one-hour delivery from The Container Store’s 93 retail locations. The service is initially launching in Texas and will...
Square sellers will now be able to offer customers alcohol delivery on Square Online’s on-demand delivery option, the digital payments processor announced Wednesday (May 5). The orders are fulfilled through Square’s delivery partners, such as DoorDash, whose drivers will also verify the customers’ ages upon...
Research has consistently found that habits form in moments of transition. Now, as the vaccine rolls out around the world and consumers begin to establish their new routines, grocers have a unique opportunity to embed themselves in consumers’ lives in an enduring way. As consumers...
The last mile, increasingly, seems to lead not to the retailer’s shelves, but to the consumer’s front door. And not just for the boxes emblazoned with Amazon “smiles” — but for toothpaste, for napkins, for the sundries that make up the minutiae of everyday life....
Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies and Gopuff, which delivers convenience store goods to people’s homes, are partnering on a new service that will allow Uber Eats users to order household essentials through its app, according to a Tuesday (May 4) press release. The plan is to launch...
The last mile’s always there, always a challenge, always urgent – and never more so than when eCommerce explodes. The prime mover advantage, of course, goes to the “King Kong” of eCommerce, which would be Amazon. You’ve likely experienced the compressed delivery times Amazon has...
