Four Delivery Companies Extend Walmart’s Grocery Reach
AxelHire, Point Pickup, Roadie and Skipcart are part of Walmart’s answer to the question of how it can expand its ability to deliver groceries to more consumers. The mega-retailer will work with the four new last-mile delivery companies to help power its Online...Bringg Nabs $25 Million to Accelerate Growth
Enterprise delivery logistics platform Bringg announced it has raised a new round of funding from a handful of partners, bringing its recent haul to a cool $55 million. Following what it calls strong market traction with clients including Walmart; Panera Bread; and...
DoorDash Hires Away Uber Engineer
The delivery wars are real, and spilling across corporate borders with the latest announcement that DoorDash hired away Ryan Sokol, a former director who was with Uber for more than four years. In a DoorDash blog post announcing Sokol’s hire as its new vice president...
Whole Foods Reportedly Ditching Smaller 365 Stores
Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon is halting its expansion of the smaller 365 grocery stores, which were created in 2015 as a smaller, cheaper, more urbane version of Whole Foods grocery stores. Yahoo Finance said it reviewed an internal email from Whole Foods CEO...
Bite Squad Releases ‘18’s Most Popular Delivery Foods
I’m a sucker for year-end lists, and Bite Squad has fueled my fire with its most popular restaurant delivery picks of 2018, both for the country as a whole and for a good number of the recently acquired brand’s top markets. The top four picks—wings, burgers, pizza and...
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