Out to Launch
Meal delivery service Just Eat is to start working with British supermarket chain Morrisons: customers will soon be able to pick up Just Eat food at their local supermarket.
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McDonald’s announced Wednesday that soon its app will feature mobile order and pay, and the company also has plans to expand its delivery service. The app functionality will be available by the end of 2017 for over 20,000 restaurants in the largest McDonald’s markets (which they identify as the U.S., France, the UK, Germany and Canada)
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Amazon.com announced Wednesday that it is adding alcohol to its one and two-hour Prime Now delivery service to residents in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.
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Online retailer eBay has promised to get items to US shoppers in three days or less with a new programme called “Guaranteed Delivery”.
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Industry Skinny
DHL opens new fulfilment centre in Hong Kong
As Asia becomes an ever more important ecommerce market for sellers in the west, moving and holding stock closer to shoppers is a keen need for retailers. So DHL eCommerce, a division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has opened a new Fulfillment Center in Hong Kong.
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DPD Germany starts food delivery service DPD Food
DPD Germany is entering the food delivery market. The German parcel and express service provider will deliver online groceries and other food products. HelloFresh is the first customer to use the service that’s being named DPD Food. Later this year, the service will be available for other customers.
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A kickstart to empowerment
Hey Deedee has trained 2,800 women from low-income families in Mumbai to work as last-mile delivery agents for e-commerce companies. It plans to scale this up to 10,000 next year.
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Bringg raises $10 million to help retailers streamline delivery
Bringg, a logistics management startup, announced that it has raised $10 million in a Series B funding round from investors including Aleph VC and Coca-Cola.
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Tech Space
Food-Delivery Robots Now in Action in DC
It’s now possible in D.C. to have a robot deliver a hot meal to your door. Robots from the delivery company Starship Technologies are rolling along Washington streets as part of a pilot program, a company spokesman said. The robots that move as fast as 4 mph were created to deliver takeout food, groceries and packages.
NBC Washington
Amazon Prime Air Drones Meet the Public — But Stay Grounded
Amazon unveiled its highly anticipated delivery drones at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas — but they’re not yet dropping merchandise or breakfast burritos to the thousands of attendees at the tech, music and film festival.
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Droids Not Drones Are the Future of E-Commerce Deliveries
Delivery robots, designed to autonomously navigate sidewalks, not roads, later this year will begin making deliveries from local businesses direct to customers. In doing so, it may just conquer e-commerce’s final frontier: the Last Mile, the least efficient and most problematic step in the delivery process.
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Food for thought
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises big things in the world of consumer goods, but even bigger things in the evolution of the supply chain. Research firm Gartner says IoT will completely change the world of delivery operations and that a thirty-fold increase in Internet connected physical devices by the year 2020 will significantly alter how the supply chain works. Morgan Stanley estimates that 75 billion devices will be connected to the IoT by 2020.
eDelivery
In the progressively competitive e-commerce world, retailers endlessly hunt for new ways to grow sales and lessen costs to profitably compete. Cultivating the customer experience is of the utmost importance in generating and retaining e-commerce shoppers. Clearly, a well-oiled, global supply chain plays a significant role in guaranteeing fulfillment success.
digitalcommerce360
With the advent of the Internet of Things there is barely anything in our modern world left untouched by technology. Each and every industry is being revolutionised by technology, and the carrier industry, being powered by the growth of ecommerce, is no different.
BMMagazine
Last week Deutsche Post DHL Group made a bold pledge with a 2050 target for net zero emissions for its logistics operations. It’s a big ask. The company outlined four key interim steps to hit by 2025 and has already beaten its original deadline of improving carbon efficiency by 30% on 2007 levels by four years.
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