Is DoorDash Really Worth $7 Billion?
There have been a handful of watershed moments in the third-party delivery space these last few years: Grubhub going public in 2014; Target buying Shipt in 2017; and DoorDash raising three-quarters of a billion dollars during 2018. With the latest news that DoorDash...
Peapod Taps Deliv for Same-Day Grocery Delivery
Peapod, a Chicago-based grocery delivery service that’s a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize USA, signed a deal with crowdsourced logistics company Deliv to provide same-day grocery delivery service in certain markets under the Giant/Martin’s brands that are also part of...
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...
Ditching the Grocery Store Habit
Call me crazy, but I love wandering the grocery store on early weekend mornings. While most normal people are still dozing in their beds, I’m smiling behind my cart at an hour when the muzak seems extra charming, fake birds chirping in the produce department are...
Outstanding Operators
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