When Foxtrot’s Mike LaVitola was studying at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, he witnessed many on-demand mobile apps and business models coming to market. However, he, along with his co-founders, saw an opportunity beyond the standard restaurant or grocery delivery platform. Their...
FedEx is coming to Walmart in the form of internal shops that will help customers print, pack and ship out of 500 of the retailer’s locations nationwide. The pilot, according to news from CNBC — which is being tested at Walmart locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas,...
Walmart is expanding its efforts to take on Amazon, planning to offer home delivery of groceries in 100 cities in the U.S. by the end of 2018. Citing a spokesman for the national retailer, The Wall Street Journal reported it will also roll out same day...
Those hungry for takeout in many cities can choose from a variety of restaurant delivery services. But that’s not the case for some cities, such as Youngstown, Ohio. The on-demand economy hasn’t yet taken off in Youngstown, according to Grubdom Founder Jay White, who hopes...
Ride-hailing company Uber is gearing up to expand its food delivery service, bringing UberEats into 100 new cities this year. According to a report in the Financial Times citing Uber’s head of logistics Jason Droege, the company is expanding UberEats in a slew of cities in...
Believe it or not, drones are expected to start making limited deliveries in the U.S. within the next few months. The Wall Street Journal reported that the news comes after government agencies and the companies looking to utilize drones received pressure from the White House...
The rise of eCommerce is an inexorable fact. Readers of this space know that. Think trillions of dollars in sales, where the reach is global, and where customers can order what they want, when they want it — and delivery had best be speedy when...
Uber Freight is finally launching its autonomous truck deliveries, with the first hauls driven in tandem with both human drivers and self-driving trucks being completed in Arizona. According to TechCrunch, Uber loads the freight on a human-driven truck, which collects the load from the shipper...
The “Amazon Effect” changes everything — from the way we look for goods to the window of time in which we expect to receive them. If the consumer’s view has shifted when it comes to shopping, shipping must change too. Slowly, perhaps, but surely, then,...
