by Nicholas Upton | Aug 15, 2019 | Finance, News, Third-Party Delivery
Postmates is set to join Uber, Grubhub and Waitr in the public markets. According to TechCrunch, the company will file its S-1, the key document to register securities on the public markets next month. Available details are sparse, but the company has partnered with...
by Nicholas Upton | Aug 8, 2019 | Best Practices, Third-Party Delivery
The worst thing about baseball concessions isn’t the quality or even the exorbitant prices, it’s hearing the crowd go crazy as your star hitter knocks a dinger into the bleachers while you’re waiting for a $12 Miller Lite. Well, Postmates has a plan to help. As...
by Tom Kaiser | Aug 2, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery
DoorDash, the leading U.S. third-party delivery provider by market share, has entered into an agreement with Square to buy its Caviar delivery brand for $410 million in cash and DoorDash preferred stock. This huge acquisition underscores DoorDash’s recent gains...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann spoke last week at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, where he dismissed rumors that the fourth-largest U.S.-based delivery brand was preparing to be sold to DoorDash, Uber or Walmart rather than pursuing a...
by Nicholas Upton | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
A new survey from US Foods digs into the grievances consumers have with third-party delivery and provides some eye-popping insight into some of the less-than-ethical things couriers do on the job. The food supplier conducted a national survey of 1,500 delivery...