by Tom Kaiser | Jul 6, 2022 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Grubhub received a big boost after Amazon announced it’s giving a free year of the Grubhub+ to its nearly 150 million U.S. Prime members as a new perk, affording them access to free and unlimited deliveries starting immediately. This comes less than three months after...
by Tom Kaiser | Jun 23, 2022 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
Amazon announced that customers in a city near Sacramento, California, will be among the first U.S. residents to receive drone deliveries through its Prime Air Service. The aerial deliveries, slated to begin later this year, mark a significant milestone as Amazon’s...
by Nicholas Upton | Jul 8, 2021 | Automation, News
Amazon is expanding its work on Amazon Scout, the company’s land-based delivery robot. The delivery giant is hiring a team of engineers and developing new software to help simulate real-world conditions its robots will face out on the streets. With these...
by Nicholas Upton | May 13, 2021 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery
Amazon has expanded its unique In-Garage Grocery Delivery service to the 5,000 cities where its existing grocery delivery service is already available. For the uninitiated, Amazon customers with a smart garage opener can choose this new delivery option instead of the...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 10, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest restaurant-delivery services and one which is backed by an investment from Amazon, announced plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange in a listing that “could value the British food-delivery firm at around $7 billion and mark...