by Nicholas Upton | Jan 7, 2021 | Automation, News
Walmart is expanding a test with automated truck startup Gatik and will remove safety drivers for fully autonomous, human-free deliveries. Gatik’s autonomous trucks will be heading to Louisiana for an expansion to a second market with Walmart. The partnership...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 7, 2021 | Briefs, Third-Party Delivery
West Coast grocery chains Vons and Safeway have reportedly announced plans to replace their in-house delivery drivers with DoorDash drivers in the wake of the passage of Proposition 22, according to multiple media reports. LAist reports that Albertsons-owned Vons, one...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 7, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
As the outspoken CEO of a tech company trying to break restaurant dependency on third-party delivery services, Nabeel Alamgir of Lunchbox is more of a happy warrior than an angry naysayer. Even in saying “the bad guys are winning” when talking about the largest...
by Tom Kaiser | Dec 21, 2020 | COVID-19, News
Chowbus, a food-delivery platform exclusively focused on mom-and-pop-style Asian restaurants, has shared trends and details about what their users have been ordering and eating throughout 2020. Major North American Trends: A New Focus on Lunch To no one’s surprise,...
by Tom Kaiser | Dec 21, 2020 | News, Third-Party Delivery
DoorDash and Payfare have announced the launch of the DasherDirect platform, a banking platform for DoorDash delivery drivers that includes mobile banking and prepaid Visa cards for its Dashers. This marks DoorDash’s first-ever financial platform for Dashers,...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 21, 2020 | News, Third-Party Delivery
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) and a group of third-party delivery providers came together on seven principles when it comes to public policy. While restaurants and third-party delivery have some natural tension in the relationship, they could agree on...