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Whole Foods Reportedly Ditching Smaller 365 Stores
Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon is halting its expansion of the smaller 365 grocery stores, which were created in 2015 as a smaller, cheaper, more urbane version of Whole Foods grocery stores.
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Bite Squad Releases ‘18’s Most Popular Delivery Foods
I’m a sucker for year-end lists, and Bite Squad has fueled my fire with its most popular restaurant delivery picks of 2018, both for the country as a whole and for a good number of the recently acquired brand’s top markets. The top four picks, wings, burgers, pizza and burritos are no surprise, but the list gets more interesting after that.
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Wayback’s Solution: On-site Cooking in Electric Vehicles
The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.
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Starbucks Dives Deep With UberEats Delivery Deal
With mall and hotel kiosks, packaged goods on store shelves and drive-thrus all over, you might feel like Starbucks is everywhere, but a new delivery partnership with UberEats means that coffee call may soon be coming from inside your house.
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GM’s Cruise and DoorDash Testing Driverless Deliveries
Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform.
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Indian Delivery Startup Swiggy Raises Incredible $1 Billion
Swiggy has just earned the title of most-raised in a single round for the food-delivery industry. The app-powered food-delivery service based in India just completed a series H round, bringing in $1 billion. Naspers, a South African investment giant, led the round and...
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Wayback’s Solution: On-site Cooking in Electric Vehicles
The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.
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Bite Squad Releases ‘18’s Most Popular Delivery Foods
I’m a sucker for year-end lists, and Bite Squad has fueled my fire with its most popular restaurant delivery picks of 2018, both for the country as a whole and for a good number of the recently acquired brand’s top markets. The top four picks, wings, burgers, pizza and burritos are no surprise, but the list gets more interesting after that.
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Wayback’s Solution: On-site Cooking in Electric Vehicles
The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.
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GM’s Cruise and DoorDash Testing Driverless Deliveries
Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform.
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Pizza Hut Boosting Beer Delivery Ahead of Super Bowl
Getting inebriated at home is about to become even easier with news that Pizza Hut is boosting its beer delivery pilot to a second round of states equating to nearly 300 restaurants across Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and Ohio—with additional locations...
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Online Grocery Sales Forecasted to Grow in ‘19
U.S. consumers are predicted to continue migrating online for grocery shopping, with a new study suggesting online grocery sales will expand an additional 15% during 2019, increasing the overall share captured online in 2019 to 6.3%; however, providers that offer...
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TripAdvisor, DoorDash Partner to Feed Travelers
Heading anywhere during the holidays or beyond? Be forewarned: you may get hungry. In an interesting partnership—one of countless announced with delivery providers in recent weeks—TripAdvisor has partnered with DoorDash in more than 1,800 cities throughout North...
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Panera Adding Breakfast to In-House Delivery Program
Panera Bread has reportedly passed $2 billion in digital sales this year, double the previous year, as the brand launches a new breakfast delivery program starting with 231 cities and towns across the country. In a press release, Panera said breakfast can now be...
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Alphabet’s Wing Drone to Fly Over Finland
Wing, the drone arm of Alphabet, is heading to Helsinki next year. Wing has become a proper company or “graduated” within the company, meaning it’s no longer just a moonshot. And this test implies the technology is ready for prime time. The Helsinki test will be a...
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