Amazon Reportedly Developing Additional Grocery Brand
The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is finalizing plans to open dozens of new grocery stores across the country, doubling down on its interest in the grocery market after purchasing Whole Foods in 2017 for more than $13 billion. According to the story, which...
FedEx Unveils Autonomous Delivery Bot
Delivery logistics giant FedEx announced what it calls the SameDay Bot, an autonomous delivery robot aimed at retailers wanting to make same-day and last-mile deliveries. With the bot, which resembles a trash compactor-Opportunity rover hybrid, retailers can accept...
Reclusive Lovers Fuel V-Day Delivery Growth
Waitr and its newly acquired Bite Squad subsidiary both saw impressive gains in delivery orders on Valentine’s Day, with a particularly notable increase in seafood-based items and kids meals like mozzarella sticks and chicken tenders. For Waitr, the Louisiana-based...
Is DoorDash Really Worth $7 Billion?
There have been a handful of watershed moments in the third-party delivery space these last few years: Grubhub going public in 2014; Target buying Shipt in 2017; and DoorDash raising three-quarters of a billion dollars during 2018. With the latest news that DoorDash...
Expert Argues Amazon Isn’t Killing Traditional Retail
For all the articles, news segments and business conference quips that Amazon is responsible for the difficulties seen in the U.S. retail market as once-iconic brands continue to fall, one retail real estate expert argues that the Seattle-based mega-giant’s impact is...
Outstanding Operators
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