White Rhino, a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer, has raised nearly $8 million through a recent Series A funding round.
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GM showed off its BrightDrop delivery EVs at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and announced big orders from FedEx and Walmart.
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As the food delivery business accelerated, so too did interest in autonomous deliveries. here’s a look at some of the the self-driving delivery tests that occurred in 2021.
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Delivering shipments of wild-caught fish from Alaska is a fundamentally different challenge than restaurant delivery, but it has similarly exploded in popularity.
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Moody’s downgraded its outlook for Grubhub while maintaining a stable outlook for the third-largest U.S. restaurant delivery provider.
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Residents in the southeast have new grocery delivery options, as DoorDash has partnered with Southeastern Grocers Inc., parent of Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie.
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Food delivery has a packaging problem, and it’s not just sad fries. For nearly every single order, there is at least one single-use container heading to the landfill or out into the environment. To address that issue, Dispatch Goods has been working on returnable containers designed for restaurants and mail-order food deliveries. After growing a successful program in the Bay Area, the company jumped to the East Coast after closing a $3.7 million fundraising round that will help the company continue expanding. For cofounders Maia Tekle and Lindsey Hoell, it’s […]
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A DoorDash employee went viral for blasting the company’s WeDash program, and the internet snark exploded. WeDash is a program that requires all DoorDash employees to make a delivery once a month. The program was initially launched in 2013 with all proceeds going to charity, but was paused for the pandemic. “As the company grew, the founders wanted everyone to experience different parts of the product so we could get closer to all our audiences and understand how the product works,” a DoorDash spokesperson told CNN. Now, it’s back for […]
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Lyft is getting into the restaurant delivery business through a new partnership with Olo, following in the tire tracks of its rival Uber.
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Marc Lore, the founder of Jet.com, is moving further into the U.S. food delivery scene with a new company called Wonder, an on-demand meal courier platform he calls a “one-stop shop” for prepared meals.
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