DoorDash is ending its partnership with Walmart after more than four years of delivering the retail giant’s products to customers. The news was first reported by Business Insider. Sources familiar with the matter told Insider that DoorDash decided to end its partnership with Walmart because it was no longer mutually beneficial and because the delivery company …
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DoorDash is calling off its partnership with Walmart, which had the service delivering groceries and other goods from the retail chain to customers for over four years, according to a report from Insider. A source close to the situation told Insider that DoorDash notified Walmart about its decision earlier this month, citing that the partnership “was no longer mutually …
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Dive Brief: Walmart is buying Delivery Drivers Inc. (DDI), the gig-labor management company that is the partner for the retailer’s Spark Driver platform, a Walmart spokesperson said in an email. The acquisition is for an undisclosed amount, according to Insider, which first reported the news. The acquisition of DDI aims to streamline the driver experience with …
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Shares of Canoo are spiking this morning after the company announced that Walmart had agreed to order 4,500 electric vans from the company. The move from Walmart comes as part of its broader goal to reach net zero emissions by 2040. The goal is to use the vans for “last mile” deliveries, getting items from …
Walmart is commercializing its delivery service, using contract workers, autonomous vehicles and even drones to deliver other retailers’ products directly to customers’ homes. The Arkansas-based retailer launched delivery and Express delivery for its shoppers three years ago on more than 160,000 items from more than 3,000 stores. The nation’s largest retailer aims to tap into …
Walmart is launching a delivery service to jump into the food delivery industry. DoorDash and Instacart, move out of the way because Walmart is about to give you a run for your money. On Tuesday, the grocery store giant announced it would start commercializing its delivery platform, Fox Business reports. It plans to deliver goods and other products …
As if the war for quick delivery supremacy was not hot and heavy enough already, DoorDash just turned up the dial to an eleven. Last Thursday DoorDash announced the rollout of DoubleDash, a new feature that, according to a recent company blog post, allows customers to “add your favorite items from nearby stores to your original …
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LITTLE ROCK — Walmart is acquiring JoyRun, a startup that focuses on a final-mile platform connecting goods from 500 companies with its more than 30,000 runners who work as independent contractors. “This acquisition allows us to further augment our team and ongoing efforts to explore even more ways to deliver for customers in the future. For …
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Grubhub‘s (NYSE:GRUB) stock popped on Jan. 8 after The Wall Street Journal claimed that the food delivery company was mulling a potential sale. However, most of those gains faded the following day after Grubhub denied the rumors. Grubhub stated that it “unequivocally” isn’t running a sale process and that there were “currently no plans to do so.” But this isn’t the …
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Executives from Walmart and at least three other grocers have mulled acquiring food-delivery service Grubhub, an industry consultant says. Executives of Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons and Ahold-Delhaize, the owner of Hannaford and Stop & Shop and other supermarkets, are considering how an acquisition of the Chicago company could help them with food delivery and groceries, according …
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