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Online Liquor Sales Are Booming – Can Digital ID Keep Up?

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As online food delivery services proliferate amid the battle for customer loyalty, and as grocery and related stores strive to gain more digital footholds, the online sale of alcohol is growing and becoming a bigger part of all those plans. Online food delivery is in the midst of what might one day be called a golden age.

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‘Ghost’ Kitchens Take A Bigger Role In Food Delivery

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As restaurants continue to wrestle with the questions that come with food delivery — how to make enough money, whether to work with third-party operators, how to manage customer relationships — a new factor is gaining significance. Keatz already operators ten “ghost” kitchens in Europe. Keatz reportedly has raised about $13.5

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Amazon To Build Logistics Capabilities With Carbon-Neutral Electric Trucks

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With the formation of an in-house armada of carbon-neutral delivery trucks, Amazon will soon integrate another step of the online shopping pipeline. By 2022, 10,000 of the new carbon-neutral vehicles will be reportedly operating. And, by 2030, all 100,000 would reportedly be operating.

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Online Food Delivery Is Having A Bright Moment — But Clouds Are Gathering

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India-based online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has reportedly spent about $7.3 million to buy Scootsy , another Indian firm that offers online food delivery services. That said, online food delivery is having its moment. China, too, provides evidence that online food delivery remains a hot proposition.

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Dutch Takeaway.com Gets $10B For London’s Just Eat Takeover

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Amsterdam-based Takeaway.com will merge with London’s Just Eat to create one of the biggest companies in the online food delivery sector. . After merging its customer and restaurant operation teams earlier this month, Just Eat went through a round of layoffs in the U.K. of the combined group, the news outlet said. .

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Restaurant Business Serves Up Mixed Plate For 2020

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In fact, by 2030, the National Restaurant Association expects that technology could completely change the face of dining. Accelerating trends in technology and consumer demand will lead to more “cloud kitchens” and “virtual restaurants” — restaurants that exist only online or via an app,” the report says.

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Shopify’s 2Q Earnings Illustrate Growing Digital Shift For Merchants, Shoppers

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“Over the past few months, we’ve seen the COVID-19 pandemic firsthand, [and] it has catalyzed eCommerce – introducing major changes in buyer behavior and pulling forward what retail would look like in 2030 to 2020,” Chief Operating Officer Harley Finkelstein said on the company’s earnings call.

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