The U.K.'s competition watchdog has given Amazon's minority investment — which would see it take a 16% stake in Deliveroo — the green light.

After a successful pilot in select markets, Curbside Grocery Pickup will be available in nearly 600 ALDI stores across the country this month.

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Amazon.com has launched a free and fast grocery delivery in London this week and plans to expand the service to the rest of the UK by the end of the year in a move to tap the increasing demand for online food sales accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Internet giant Amazon’s dramatic expansion into the grocery delivery market poses a “real threat” to food businesses competing in the booming online retail sector, experts said today.

By late April, Instacart said it had hired 300,000 independent contractor “full-service shoppers” to meet the surge in customer demand, and the company said it plans to add another 200,000 over the next couple of months. However, some of its in-store shoppers, who are part-time employees of Instacart, are losing their jobs, CNN Business has learned.

A more intelligent model for Instacart to utilize is to open strategically placed fulfillment centers in cities across the United States. The purpose of the fulfillment centers is to remove pickers from stores and instead, automatically fulfill online orders using robotic micro-fulfillment centers.

Uber had the forward-looking vision to diversify beyond ride hailing. Food delivery has been a hot market due to concerns about the safety of going out to eat at restaurants in 2020.

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Grubhub's average daily orders jumped 32% in the second quarter as the pandemic shut in diners, but the company swung to a loss as it spent heavily to prop up struggling restaurants and protect drivers.

The company saw huge growth in users, orders and food sales in the second quarter as more people turned to delivery during the pandemic.

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Some fast food restaurants including McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, and Starbucks have been shown selling their products for slightly higher prices on third-party delivery apps, Business Insider reports.

With restaurant dining rooms still closed or operating under limited capacity, restaurant operators are looking for new ways to generate revenue. A growing number of operators are creating new virtual restaurant brands, available for delivery only.

‘Our ultimate strategy is always to get more share through our own websites then through third-party marketplace,’ says Alex Atwell, Salata’s marketing director.

Shipt has partnered with Tampa-based WellCare to provide grocery and essential goods delivery to Medicare Advantage members.

The company has entered into a partnership with PICKUP. The service will be rolled out to 1,100 stores across the U.S. in the next month.

Giant Food, the Baltimore area’s largest grocer, will complete an expansion this month of its distribution warehouse in Jessup, in part to supply products for home delivery.

Launched in Portland, Oregon in 2018, Milk Run is an online grocer, dedicated to helping farmers and producers earn more money. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and so many people preparing meals at home, its business is spiking.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed over 50 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Knox Produce Box is a weekly delivery service that provides fresh, local fruits, vegetables and products to doorsteps across East Tennessee.

Rungis Market in Paris and Choco Market in Berlin are just two examples of how people are working to bring the singular experience of market shopping directly to your door.

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The problem for the industry is the vast majority of restaurants aren't built for take-out and delivery options like Pizza Hut is, Cramer said. Even among those that do offer delivery and take-away, the off-premise sales is not enough.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill on Monday allowing home delivery of beer, wine, and liquor in Georgia. HB879 permits beer, wine, and liquor to be delivered directly to people’s homes from restaurants, bars, convenience stores, some package stores, and grocery stores.

The meals use the freshest ingredients from local Sydney farms and take less than 10 minutes to cook.

Online demand for groceries has seen a “fantastic surge” in the Middle East during the coronavirus pandemic, and the trend may be here to stay, Alain Bejjani of Majid Al Futtaim told CNBC this week.

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Tuesday announced 90-minute delivery for groceries as it looked to take on Amazon.com and billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s upstart JioMart in the fast-growing Indian market.

Yebo Fresh, a tech-driven food delivery company catering exclusively to Cape Town townships, has expanded rapidly under lockdown.