August 07, 2018
Meal Kit Companies Reconsider Direct/Subscription Model In Favor Of Retail
Among the new wave of direct-to-consumer and subscription-based eCommerce taking hold of the industry, none was considered more promising over the past year than the direct-to-consumer meal kit business. By...
August 06, 2018
Five At Five: MoviePass Shelves Price Increase, Limits Free Films
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes MoviePass holding off on a rate hike, in favor of...
August 06, 2018
Gobble Teams Up With Walmart To Sell Meal Kits Online
Gobble is teaming up with Walmart to offer its meal kits on the retailer’s eCommerce platform. The meal kit provider offers meals that require one pan and can be made...
August 03, 2018
Albertsons Unveils Grocery Investment Fund
To help grow innovative companies in the grocery industry, Albertsons Companies has linked up with Greycroft to create an investment fund. The fund, which could be up to $50 million, is...
August 02, 2018
Blue Apron’s Customer Base Drops 24 Percent In Q2
Customers keep leaving Blue Apron, leading to a 25 percent revenue drop in the second quarter of 2018 for a company that went public last year and is now struggling...
August 01, 2018
How Local Food Delivery Aggregators Compete With Larger Platforms
For every Uber Eats or Seamless, there are small food delivery platforms competing in cities across the U.S. on customer service, local knowledge and restaurant fees. In Richmond, Virginia, for...
July 31, 2018
Fast Food’s First Foray Into Meal Kits
A few years ago, analysts were wondering if meal kits were about to disrupt traditional grocery as an easier and more convenient way for customers to enjoy the benefits of...
July 30, 2018
Meal Kit Providers Exit Q2 With Industry In Major Flux
Blue Apron has long enjoyed the distinction of being among the early innovators in the meal kit category. With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to...
July 27, 2018
Car Subscriptions Sizzle, Facebook Fizzles And Google Admirably Races On...
Amazon — with the whole the Alexa/Echo ecosystem — is not an easy competitor to race with. Looking at the marketplace for Voice AI assistants at 2018’s halfway mark ,there is...