by Tom Kaiser | Jul 20, 2021 | Finance, News, Third-Party Delivery
Move over ghost kitchens and virtual restaurants: instant delivery platforms are officially the hottest corner of the delivery space with New York-based startup, Jokr, announcing a $170 million Series A round to grow the grocery and retail delivery provider. The...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 1, 2021 | News, Top Stories
Like cicadas, the rapid-delivery grocery category has sprung up so quickly you’ve got to assume it’s been here all along, waiting for the ideal time to emerge from the ground. It’s easy to picture use cases where near-instant grocery delivery makes sense, but Jokr is...
by Emili Raeder | Jul 1, 2021 | News
Almost-instant grocery delivery company Gorillas is coming from across the pond to provide New Yorkers with groceries delivered in ten minutes or less. Kağan Sümer founded and launched the Berlin-based company in June 2020. Growing extensively from the start, Gorillas...
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 | Apr 30, 2020 | News
Online grocery sales in the U.S. grew by 37 percent in April, to a total of $5.3 billion, according to research from Brick Meets Click and Symphony Retail AI. The headline figure is a 33 percent increase in the total number of online grocery orders placed in the past...