by Tom Kaiser | Jan 16, 2019 | News
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. Yahoo Finance said it reviewed an internal email from Whole Foods CEO...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 11, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery
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...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 9, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
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. During its 2018 Investor...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 3, 2019 | News
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...
by Tom Kaiser | Dec 28, 2018 | News, Third-Party Delivery
It isn’t easy going in the restaurant world these days, especially for some of the largest chains whose efforts to adapt to a new world is more like turning around a cargo ship than deftly changing course in a speedboat. Put simply, as big brands continue to struggle,...
