Morrisons, the British supermarket chain, has reached an agreement with Amazon to get free same-day grocery delivery, the company announced Wednesday (Aug. 19) in a press release. “Morrisons on Amazon” will start in Leeds, before being expanded to millions of Amazon Prime members nationwide in...
Flipkart, Walmart’s eCommerce website in India, has partnered with one of the country’s largest alcohol companies to deliver liquor in two Indian states, Reuters reported. The governments of West Bengal and Odisha have approved a plan for Flipkart customers to purchase liquor through HipBar, an...
Amazon’s epic push to deliver its own packages and cut out third parties like FedEx is picking up speed during the pandemic, with a dramatic year-over-year gain in July. As of July, Amazon was shipping 66 percent of its own packages, up from 55 percent...
The great digital shift — and the evolution of how we get our food from grocers’ aisles to table — has spurred a number of strategic partnerships aimed at cementing customer loyalty. And depending on how you look at it, omnichannel efforts in the grocery...
Walmart Inc. and Instacart have teamed up to offer same-day delivery in select U.S. markets as the battle against Amazon and Whole Foods Market intensifies, CNBC reported. The service is being tested in four California and Oklahoma markets and solidifies the San Francisco-based grocery delivery and...
Uber and its newly acquired Postmates have found rapid growth in home delivery of groceries — and potential for much more growth — during the COVID-19 crisis, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC this morning. Interviewed on the network’s “Squawk on the Street” program, Khosrowshahi...
American runs on trucking, from 18-wheelers to light trucks that can navigate impossible urban streets. Trucking is the lifeline by which food appears overnight in our supermarkets, and a host of other products that use the highways as a circulatory system to supply a nation’s...
Putting the “hospital” in Butler Hospitality, the New York-based hotel room service startup found itself this past spring in a city overrun by frontline workers of every description, setting up field hospitals in Manhattan’s most famous greenspaces as medical ships anchored. Tim Gjonbalic, founder and...
“Please put seat backs and tray tables in their upright and locked position. Your monthly subscription box of (fill in the blank) will be descending from the sky momentarily.” Except with drones, there are no seats or drivers. Meet the future: drone delivery. Drones helicoptering...
