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PYMNTS
JUNE 11, 2020
Seattle’s City Council is debating a bill to force eCommerce ordering and transportation platforms like Instacart and Uber to give drivers at least $5 “premium pay” for each trip made during the pandemic and until as long as 2023. Now, Instacart is threatening to halt operations there rather than pay up. “If More than two-thirds (67.4
PYMNTS
JUNE 29, 2018
Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. The idea behind it, noted NBC News, is for Google to make people even more reliant on the Internet so it can turn around and sell more online ads.
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CB Insights
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. There are another 120 workers slated to be let go in Michigan. “We Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Walmart Makes It Easy to Shop Online While in Store. Consumers looking for a specific product they can’t find in-store can now ask an associate to help them find the item online via an in-store device. Cashierless tech is currently up and running in seven Amazon Go stores sprinkled throughout Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco.
PYMNTS
APRIL 7, 2020
While the eventual goal for perhaps all participants in the pre- COVID-19 commerce ecosystem was to center their operations around a digital-first mentality, priorities have shifted some in the last several weeks. The percentage of consumers buying groceries online has tripled, from 3 percent on March 6 to 9 percent on March 28.
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