Sally Beauty Holdings, a retailer and distributor of hair color and care products for both consumers and salon professionals, is working to optimize its footprint by consolidating its stores and distribution centers while continuing to serve its customers via its omnichannel capabilities, the company said...
Leading U.S. food delivery service DoorDash is expanding its selection of cosmetics, a lightweight, high-cost category that racks-up large order values while taking up minimal space in drivers’ cars. In a company announcement Wednesday (Nov. 9), DoorDash said it is partnering with Sephora to deliver from more than 500 of...
In the battle for digital orders, restaurants are way ahead of third-party aggregators. By the Numbers Research from this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Restaurant Digital Divide report, “The 2022 Restaurant Digital Divide: Restaurant Apps And Websites In The Spotlight,” which draws from a census-balanced survey of nearly...
At the height of the pandemic, many in the restaurant industry predicted that the rapid proliferation of ghost kitchens and virtual brands was premature, arguing that the model would not prove sustainable once consumers were able to return to restaurants. Now, however, even as dining...
September 03, 2020
The difficulties restaurants face with big delivery platforms like Grubhub or Uber Eats have been extensively cataloged. Critics claim the platforms take too big a bite out of restaurants’ revenues, diminish restaurateurs’ abilities to develop direct relationships with customers and create logistical headaches as they come in to make pick-ups. And for small restaurants — […]
March 15, 2023
Shopify is building an “elastic warehouse capacity” that’s more flexible than that of Amazon. As Shopify continues to integrate Deliverr — the eCommerce fulfillment and order storage provider it acquired for $2.1 billion last year — it’s finding that it can build a distribution network that is cost-effective for its merchants, offers speedy delivery to the merchants’ customers and gives […]
November 10, 2022
Sally Beauty Holdings, a retailer and distributor of hair color and care products for both consumers and salon professionals, is working to optimize its footprint by consolidating its stores and...
May 20, 2022
Amazon.com Inc. delivery drivers are fetching packages from mall stores and dropping the goods off at consumers’ homes under a plan the company is testing, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 20)....
May 05, 2021
Amid the pandemic, to paraphrase an old Eagles tune: Some drink to remember; some drink to forget. But, as the data tell us — we drink, if not the same...
