As of this month (April), Target customers in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C. will find it easier to get the goods they want that much faster. According to reports, the retailer announced that about 60 new stores will be adding same-day...
Domino’s Pizza announced news on Monday (April 16) that as of today, more than 150,000 Domino’s Hotspots are now active nationwide, enabling customers to receive delivery orders in locations that don’t have traditional addresses — like a park, sports field or a beach. In a...
Postmates — in cooperation with Edelman Intelligence — set out to determine what effect the company has had, economically speaking, in the cities in which it operates. Using data from 2017 to the present day — and tapping information from the 300 U.S. markets where the food...
President Donald Trump, a few days after ratcheting up his attacks on Amazon, has issued an executive order Thursday (April 12) that will create a task force to look at how to improve the U.S. Postal Service. According to the report in The Wall Street Journal,...
Divey Gulati knows firsthand how challenging it can be for eCommerce merchants to fulfill and mail orders. After all, Gulati and a co-founder once had their own eCommerce business. “We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce...
Boxed, known as the “Costco for millennials,” has launched its first paid-membership tier that will offer customers rewards and discounts. “All the best services have some sort of subscription model,” Ashish Prashar, Boxed’s head of communications, told Business Insider. “People will pay for that premium...
Bikes have long been a useful medium for transporting goods. In late 1880s Paris, for example, messengers on bicycles delivered checks between banks. Bike couriers also carried telegram messages over their last-mile journeys. Around the same time in the U.S., bike messengers came on the scene...
Two of the largest restaurant delivery startups in the U.S. are considering a merger in an attempt to take on their biggest rivals. Multiple sources have told Recode that the CEOs of both DoorDash and Postmates have discussed a potential deal at least once in...
China’s ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing announced it has launched a food delivery service. The company confirmed it is running a pilot food delivery service in Wuxi, a city in southern Jiangsu province. But there are plans to expand to other locations in the future. Didi...
