by Tom Kaiser | Jun 6, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
In its quest for product deliveries faster than a single day, Amazon’s Prime Air division unveiled a new delivery drone that can fly up to 15 miles on a charge and deliver packages under five pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes. Looking somewhat similar to a...
by Tom Kaiser | May 22, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
It’s been clear that Amazon has its hungry eyes on the meal-delivery space, but it’s now making its big move with word that Seattle’s deliver-everything giant led a $575 million financing round in London-based Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest third-party delivery...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 20, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Checkers and Rally’s is taking on delivery in a big way, going all in with every provider it can get and maybe changing the delivery game along the way. Checkers has around 900 locations, with about 300 of those corporate locations. So it’s not as large as the big QSR...
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 Nicholas Upton | Feb 19, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery
Amazon is taking an earthbound detour with its new drones. The ecommerce giant that has a handful of wild patents for our aerial drone future has taken to the streets around Seattle with a new roving delivery bot. Dubbed Scout, a six-wheeled robot that looks like a...
