A boom in eCommerce shipping, along with electronic driver monitoring devices, is making the already tight truck driver market worse, according to CNBC. Truck drivers haul almost 71 percent – or 10.6 billion tons – of the tonnage shipped annually in the U.S., according to American...
After Suyog Mody started testing Driftaway Coffee, he learned a lesson about consumer preferences very quickly: Customers aren’t always good about articulating what they want. “If you ask people what [they] like, there’s a sort of combination of what they truly like and understand with a...
Instacart, the startup that will do your shopping for you and deliver it to your doorstep, announced news on Tuesday (April 24) that it has made tipping easier and simplified its service fee. In a blog post, Instacart said that after feedback from customers and...
DoorDash is ready to make a move on grocery delivery as a partner firm to larger companies. And it doesn’t get much bigger than their first big partner — Walmart. According to reports, the goal is to give businesses an option over Instacart, which controls the...
Deliv, the delivery startup that enables retailers to provide same-day delivery, is now enabling Shopify retailers to offer its customers same-day delivery. According to news from TechCrunch, citing comments Deliv Chief Executive Officer Daphne Carmeli made in an interview, through a partnership with Zapiet, which is a...
Before Rockets of Awesome Founder and CEO Rachel Blumenthal had a thriving business — her subscription service for children’s clothes — she was a mom with a problem: There is no such thing as being done with clothes shopping for kids. No matter what anyone...
Rod Sims, the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, said Monday (April 23) that he would look at contracts Uber has with restaurants that use its Uber Eats food delivery service. Reuters, citing comments Sims made to ABC radio, reported that the watchdog will...
Watch out, Grubhub: Uber Eats is currently the fastest-growing meal delivery service in the U.S. According to Recode, Uber Eats is bringing in nearly as much new customer revenue as Grubhub, with customers spending more on Uber Eats than on any other food delivery service...
Last mile? How about last few feet? The rise of the locker is a … lock. Amazon, of course, with heft and scale, has entered the market in a big way: Late last year the eCommerce giant began signing contracts with apartment operators to install...
