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Bringg Nabs $25 Million to Accelerate Growth

By fodnews | January 28, 2019

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 Arcos Dorados, McDonalds’ largest global franchisee, the new money is planned to accelerate the company’s ongoing expansion. CEO Guy Bloch said, “this is a watershed moment for Bringg” and added that the new investment will help the company level the playing field in the age of Amazon by […]

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DoorDash Hires Away Uber Engineer

By Tom Kaiser | January 25, 2019

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.

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Whole Foods Reportedly Ditching Smaller 365 Stores

By Tom Kaiser | January 16, 2019

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.

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Bite Squad Releases ‘18’s Most Popular Delivery Foods

By Tom Kaiser | January 11, 2019

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 burritos are no surprise, but the list gets more interesting after that.

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Wayback’s Solution: On-site Cooking in Electric Vehicles

By Laura Michaels | January 9, 2019

The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.

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Starbucks Dives Deep With UberEats Delivery Deal

By Tom Kaiser | January 9, 2019

With mall and hotel kiosks, packaged goods on store shelves and drive-thrus all over, you might feel like Starbucks is everywhere, but a new delivery partnership with UberEats means that coffee call may soon be coming from inside your house.

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GM’s Cruise and DoorDash Testing Driverless Deliveries

By fodnews | January 9, 2019

Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform.

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Pizza Hut Boosting Beer Delivery Ahead of Super Bowl

By fodnews | January 9, 2019

Getting inebriated at home is about to become even easier with news that Pizza Hut is boosting its beer delivery pilot to a second round of states equating to nearly 300 restaurants across Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and Ohio—with additional locations across California and Arizona coming online by the middle of this month. The rollout is a brand priority, with Pizza Hut aiming to grow beer delivery to 1,000 restaurants by summer of 2019. The announcement was intentionally timed ahead of Super Bowl LIII, one of the busiest days […]

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Online Grocery Sales Forecasted to Grow in ‘19

By fodnews | January 9, 2019

U.S. consumers are predicted to continue migrating online for grocery shopping, with a new study suggesting online grocery sales will expand an additional 15% during 2019, increasing the overall share captured online in 2019 to 6.3%; however, providers that offer delivery and pickup are expected to grow their online sales between 25% and 30%, according to grocery research firm, Brick Meets Click. Although the forecast indicates that a larger share of online spending for groceries will shift toward the brick-and-mortar retailers offering these services, the gains will not be evenly […]

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Testing Target’s Drive-Up Delivery

By Tom Kaiser | January 3, 2019

Target’s Drive Up is sticky, using the parlance of our times. Having recently sworn off big-box grocery visits in favor of delivery or curbside pickup, skipping the hassles and time-sucks of Target for this mid-thirties yuppie is a worthy life upgrade. I may even bring my dog with me next time.

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