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'Buyable Pins' Allow Merchants To Sell On Pinterest

Shopify is currently the only way for small and medium-sized businesses to sell using Buyable Pins on Pinterest.

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Chipotle Teams With Postmates To Deliver Food In 67 Cities

Chipotle’s delivery service is available in Washington D.C. and major cities within the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.

Will Package Delivery Giants Now Focus On Logistics And Freight Forwarding?

FedEx Corporation

Future acquisitions by the major package delivery firms may focus on growing other parts of their business, such as contract logistics, logistics or freight forwarding, notes one analyst in light of FedEx Corp.’s planned acquisition of TNT Express.

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SideCar Deliveries Mixes Passenger Service With Package Deliveries; Expands Nationwide

Sidecar Deliveries makes the cost of same-day delivery cheaper for companies who integrate with its API — up to 1/5 the price of traditional shippers and cuts the delivery time in half.

Alibaba Drones Fly Over Beijing While Amazon Pleads for U.S. Tests

Asia’s largest Internet company is partnering with Shanghai YTO Express Logistics Co. to deliver ginger tea packets to 450 Chinese customers who volunteered for the one-time drone tests.

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Chattanooga Supermarkets Open Doors To Local Suppliers

The Bi-Lo chain one year ago launched its "Bi-Local" program, which has put products from 19 Chattanooga-area businesses in its stores.

Free Shuttle Connects Shoppers With Hy-Vee Supermarket In Iowa

The absence of transportation options creates significant challenges for people who receive SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and WIC (Women, Infants and Children program) subsidies.

ChowNow: First Online Restaurant Ordering Platform To Integrate Apple Pay

ChowNow is the first online ordering system to offer Apple's new touch-of-a-button payment technology.

Amazon Enters Restaurant Takeout Delivery Service

The service only appears to be live in Amazon's hometown of Seattle for now, but you can be certain that the company has much larger ambitions than food delivery in a city with 650,000 residents.

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Volvo Near Deal To Deliver Parcels To Parked Cars

Volvo Car Group

Deutsche Post AG’s DHL unit is in talks with Volvo Car Group on a partnership that would allow the parcel-delivery service to remotely open autos made by the Swedish manufacturer.

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IFDA Conference Report: Vercillo Stresses Importance Of Variable Costs In Food Distribution

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

A key theme that emerged from Vercillo's presentation at IFDA was the need to understand that all costs are variable and he urged distributors to adopt a “variable cost mentality.”

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Dash’s Market To Offer Click-And-Collect, Curbside Pickup

Dash’s will be the first traditional grocer in Western New York to offer the service, which allows a customer to select a shopping list of items online, then have them either delivered at home or loaded into their vehicle at the store’s curb.

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