Uber Eats and Carrefour, the French supermarket and department store under one roof, announced an agreement covering deliveries beyond Paris and in Belgium. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the Monday (July 27) announcement. Carrefour said it operates 12,300 stores in more than 30 countries, serves 105...
Amazon said on Monday (July 27) that helping to feed America’s needy during the pandemic by donating delivery services is part of its overall commitment to charity. In a press release, the company said it had “delivered more than six million meals with 7.4 million...
To bring health and wellness products to its customers, Walgreens has teamed with DoorDash for on-demand delivery. Customers in Atlanta, Chicago and Denver can currently choose from over 2,300 products for delivery, according to an announcement. Walgreens and DoorDash intend to expand the selection to over 5,000 products and bring...
Indian food-delivery company Zomato weathered a decrease in revenue after COVID-19 hit — but at the same time saw an increase in profitability, founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said in a blog post yesterday. The privately held company saw revenue for the fiscal year that...
Groceries delivered by drone? A supermarket in Alabama is shaping up to be the next big testing ground for what could either be the wave of the future in retail — or an idea better suited for the Jetsons than for real life. The world...
It’s got Netflix series written all over it: “Grocery Delivery Wars.” Imagine drones racing through the skies, festooned with NASCAR-like logos, laden with boxes of comestibles as cohort drivers on the ground try to outwit each other to drop Pop-Tarts and paper towels at people’s...
With the demand for touchless services on the rise around the globe in the COVID-19 era, San Francisco-based Uber Technologies is launching a grocery delivery service serving select Latin American and Canadian cities. The company is teaming up with Cornershop, a grocery delivery startup based...
Zomato, the $3 billion Indian food startup, has been cut off from its biggest Chinese investor Ant Financial amid new Indian regulations, The Financial Times reports. According to people with knowledge of the situation, Zomato has been unsuccessful at securing $100 million of the $150...
As Americans head into Fourth of July barbecues and related celebrations, they are showing few, if any, signs that they’re declaring independence from the takeout and delivery services that have surged in popularity during COVID-19’s social distancing. Need proof? Just look at the sums that...
