by Tom Kaiser | Apr 30, 2020 | News
To cope with the rapid surge of online grocery orders, Instacart is planning to hire an additional 250,000 full-service shoppers over the next two months for grocery delivery and pickup operations in North America. The massive hiring push is part of a number of...
by Nicholas Upton | Apr 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Finance, News
Delivery providers may be reporting a surge in orders as COVID-19 keeps diners at home, but the pandemic is expected to hurt more in the long term, according to a Wells Fargo financial analyst. In a research note from John Power, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo who...
by Nicholas Upton | Apr 30, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Third-Party Delivery
Sparked by a San Francisco decision to cap third-party delivery fees, several other U.S. cities are implementing or discussing their own cap-limitations in the name of helping restaurants. San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the 15-percent fee cap is “part of a...
by Tom Kaiser | Apr 23, 2020 | COVID-19, News
NYC-based Delivery.com is national in scale through a franchise model, but smaller than rivals like DoorDash, Uber Eats and Postmates. From its vantage point, it is seeing a tale of two cities as the pandemic hammers both car-based suburban markets, which are somewhat...
by Nicholas Upton | Apr 23, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
New data shows that COVID-19 is potentially “even-ing the playing field” for third-party delivery. That’s according to Sense360, the data and analytics firm that measures foot traffic, proprietary survey data and gleans insights from the payment data of 5 million...
by Nicholas Upton | Apr 23, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Third-Party Delivery
Uber has added a pair of new services, Uber Direct and Uber Connect, that leverage the largest network of gig drivers in the world who suddenly have a lot less driving to do. As the COVID-19 pandemic encroached into the U.S., Uber ridership tanked. In the dense urban...