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Walmart Piloting New Grocery Delivery Program

September 7, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Walmart is taking a page from Uber with its new Spark Delivery program, which uses crowdsourced drivers managed by the Bringg delivery logistics platform to get same-day grocery orders to customers.

Amazon Adding Fleet of 20,000 Trucks for Delivery Services

September 6, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Amazon has ordered 20,000 trucks from Mercedes-Benz to help power its new army of entrepreneurs creating small delivery businesses that will help Prime orders along the last mile to customers’ doorsteps.

Target Aggressively Expanding Delivery Services Ahead of Holidays

August 28, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Target continues to fire on all cylinders in terms of fulfillment, delivery and omnichannel, expanding its delivery from store and curbside pickup programs ahead of the holidays and seeing strong growth in its Shipt same-day delivery service.

Worldpay Creates Prototype for Payment on Drone Deliveries

August 7, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Worldpay is testing out a proof of concept that ties together payment verification with residential drone delivery via a special landing pad that doubles as a payment information communication system.

Walmart Ditched Associate Delivery Program After Six Months

July 31, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Less than a year into a pilot program that had employees making local deliveries of online orders, Walmart in January all but quashed the program quietly as associate buy-in wasn’t happening. See how it’s still happening at one Georgia store, and other ways Walmart is working to figure out local fulfillment of ecommerce orders.

The Grocery Wars Heat Up with Amazon Expansion

July 24, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Flexing its Whole Foods Market muscles, Amazon announced an expansion of same-day grocery delivery in New York and three cities in Florida, after Walmart’s Jet.com and FreshDirect both announced plans for fulfillment centers in the Bronx, NY.

Jet.com Will Use New Bronx FC for Same-Day Grocery Delivery in NYC

July 10, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

As the battle heats up for same-day grocery delivery in urban markets, Jet.com is opening a new fulfillment center this fall in the Bronx, NY to service New York City customers with not only food in a flash but other merchandise as well. See what other players are up to in the hyper-competitive market.

Study Finds Young Shoppers Still Love Stores, Will Wait for Packages

June 15, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

A new study of shoppers ages 14-24 by Fluent Commerce found that young shoppers weren’t as eager for fulfillment immediacy as you’d think in the age of Amazon Prime and guaranteed two-day delivery, with most digital natives still good with hitting the stores. See what else matters to the next wave of consumers.

Same-Day Delivery App Curbside Acquired by Rakuten

June 12, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Tokyo-based marketplace and logistics supplier Rakuten has acquired Curbside, a startup with $50 million in funding that powers same-day store and restaurant pickup of online orders, for an undisclosed amount. See what this deal means for the retail and restaurant customers of Curbside.

Walmart’s Jetblack Marries Personalized Shopping, Same-Day Speed

June 1, 2018 | Mike O'Brien

Jetblack, Walmart’s new invite-only, personalized shopping service aimed at busy moms in Manhattan and Brooklyn, allows members to get same-day orders fulfilled by texting them in, at $50 a month. It’s the latest example of the beast of Bentonville seeking to go upmarket and out-innovate main rival Amazon.

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