Testing Target’s Drive-Up Delivery

Testing Target’s Drive-Up Delivery

It’s been a few months since Target launched its Drive Up service where orders are delivered free of charge to motorists dwelling in designated spaces in the parking lot. Even though I wasn’t hungover on New Year’s Day, it was below zero in Minneapolis so I might as...
Anxiously Awaiting Hy-Vee Grocery Delivery

Anxiously Awaiting Hy-Vee Grocery Delivery

Grocery shopping for the lazy, busy or somewhere in between has never been easier. As my town just outside Minneapolis anxiously awaits a proposed Hy-Vee grocery store, I’m looking forward to the possibilities as the company launches lunchtime and dinner delivery in...
Discovering the Ideal Delivery Experience

Discovering the Ideal Delivery Experience

I’m a city fanatic, but live in a first-ring suburb. My humble ’burb for the last two years is technically classified as an urban area, but just outside the grid-style neighborhoods of Minneapolis. Our delivery options have been lackluster, and has been the hardest...
Winging It On an Electric Bird

Winging It On an Electric Bird

I just spent an extended lunch hour careening down the streets of downtown Minneapolis on an electric scooter and nothing will ever be the same—my life, your life, urban mobility and that persistently challenging last-mile problem faced by delivery companies and...