Tag: online delivery

April 13, 2023

How fast do consumers want their online orders delivered? Perhaps not as quickly as retailers think, according to a Wall Street Journal article posted yesterday. Jungle Scout’s Consumer Trends Report from July 2021 found 41 percent of consumers expect their […]

December 6, 2022

Same-day delivery service DoorDash recently announced the layoff of 1,250 corporate workers, raising questions as to whether this is a result of a company in trouble, a contracting vertical, an impending recession or elements of two or three of the […]

October 31, 2022

The “Annual State of Shipping Study” from UPS Capital, UPS’s financing arm, finds porch piracy, fraud and climate-related issues to be the top emerging threats facing online delivery. On those threats, the survey of 500 merchants and 1,000 online shoppers […]

October 25, 2022

Amazon.com plans to hire Hawaiian Airlines to fly packages on 10 leased Airbus SE jets around the U.S. while taking a stake in the carrier. In a blog entry, Sarah Rhoads, VP of Amazon Global Air, noted that Amazon introduced […]

October 7, 2022

A global survey finds that only 38 percent of consumers feel retailers are doing a good job of using sustainable delivery practices. Over half, however, indicated they were quite/very interested in environmentally-friendly delivery methods and 54 percent would be willing […]

August 15, 2022

Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is an excerpt of a current article from the blog of Dave Wendland, VP, strategic relations at Hamacher Resource Group and Forbes Council Member. The article first appeared on Forbes.com. With today’s […]

July 20, 2022

Online grocery shopping is a weekly habit of a segment of the population, according to a new study. One in six consumers (15.8 percent) said they purchase groceries online and have them delivered to their home weekly, according to PYMNTS’ […]

June 17, 2022

Ultra-fast delivery startups that have proliferated throughout the U.S. and abroad might have gotten ahead of themselves, according to a new study that finds that demand for the service is just not that big. Only two percent of 1,000 U.S. […]

May 26, 2022

Shopify is often seen as an alternative for independent sellers frustrated with Fulfillment by Amazon’s changing inventory rules and increasing seller costs. Will acquiring Deliverr help close the gap on fast fulfillment? Deliverr’s technology integrates third-party sellers with major e-commerce […]

May 23, 2022

Amazon.com is testing a new program that leverages its Flex gig economy driver network to bring deliveries to consumers’ doorsteps from malls. Amazon is testing the program with participating retailers at a few malls in Las Vegas, Virginia and Texas, […]

May 9, 2022

Asda is testing an hourly delivery option that lets customers communicate directly with the “personal shopper” who is collecting their orders in-store. A three-month trial of the service in Leeds and Bristol in the U.K. is being conducted in partnership […]

April 22, 2022

Amazon Prime members who have wished that their perks would extend to e-commerce experiences beyond Amazon’s website are now in luck. On Thursday, Amazon announced the launch of its Buy With Prime functionality, which will allow retailers that sell on […]

March 23, 2022

Giant Food last week did away with the $2.95 fee it was charging customers to pick up their online grocery orders at 159 of the supermarket chain’s stores. The Ahold Delhaize division is looking to fulfill orders within four hours […]

February 22, 2022

A recent McKinsey study detailed a wide range of inefficiencies from using stores for online fulfillment as well as the risks the method presents to the in-store experience. Having pickers in aisles, either for online or pickup fulfillment, may create […]

February 7, 2022

Only the major players — Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Amazon and Target (through its Shipt subsidiary) — along with a handful of others have brought grocery delivery in-house. But some industry observers think it might be time for others to join […]

February 4, 2022

Amazon.com is raising the price for an annual subscription to its Prime program to $139 a year in the U.S., up from the current $119, which took effect in 2018. The new higher annual rate will go into effect for […]

November 17, 2021

Amazon.com is launching new curbside-recyclable insulated packaging that the company says does away with the need to use bubble bags or plastic liners. Stephenie Landry, vice president, Amazon Grocery, writing on the company’s blog, claims that the new packaging will […]

October 12, 2021

Office Depot has raised its own bar for curbside delivery with the launch of a “20 Minute Pickup Promise.” When the retailer is unable to make good on in-store and curbside pickup within 20 minutes, it will send the customer […]

October 11, 2021

Yodel is set to hire over 4300 new staff as it becomes the latest courier to respond to the “ongoing growth in online retail” but faces staff shortages across its supply chain. Yodel, one of the UK’s largest parcel couriers, […]

October 8, 2021

A number of grocery stores and tech vendors have piloted delivery robots over the last few years, some autonomous, some remote controlled. Now one company is looking at the convenience store space as the sweet spot. Robotics startup Tortoise is […]