by fodnews | Mar 6, 2019 | Automation, News, Research, Top Stories
Delivery logistics giant FedEx announced what it calls the SameDay Bot, an autonomous delivery robot aimed at retailers wanting to make same-day and last-mile deliveries. With the bot, which resembles a trash compactor-Opportunity rover hybrid, retailers can accept...
by fodnews | Mar 6, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Waitr and its newly acquired Bite Squad subsidiary both saw impressive gains in delivery orders on Valentine’s Day, with a particularly notable increase in seafood-based items and kids meals like mozzarella sticks and chicken tenders. For Waitr, the Louisiana-based...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 26, 2019 | Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
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...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 26, 2019 | Research
For all the articles, news segments and business conference quips that Amazon is responsible for the difficulties seen in the U.S. retail market as once-iconic brands continue to fall, one retail real estate expert argues that the Seattle-based mega-giant’s impact is...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 19, 2019 | Best Practices, Research, Top Stories
Elizabeth Tomlinson worked her way up at Potbelly as an assistant manager, GM, part of the corporate operations team and then district manager. Now she’s director of ops for urbanbelly, Chicago’s hip Asian fusion concept owned by the Cornerstone Restaurant Group. Over...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 19, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Last year when Coca-Cola led a $10 million investment into delivery software brand Omnivore it marked the biggest, flashiest big-food brand jumping into the delivery landscape to date. Months after the big news, California-based Omnivore is positioning itself as an...
