Ocado has acquired a minority stake in robotics startup Myrmex, the U.K.-based e-grocer and automated fulfillment technology company announced Thursday.

Albertsons will test in-store, self-serve lockers for contactless pickup of online orders as its latest e-commerce addition.

Grocery delivery service Farmstead has opened its waitlist to customers in Charlotte, North Carolina. Waitlist signups will be restricted initially to 1,000 shoppers in the Charlotte market, and Farmstead expects to begin offering delivery slots to customers next month.

With just weeks left until Election Day, Instacart attempted to leverage the labor of some of its workers to promote its messaging about a controversial California ballot initiative, the outcome of which will shape how gig economy businesses operate in the state and whether workers are treated as contractors or employees.

Waitr, the popular food delivery app, recently launched tableside service technology for customers dining at its partner restaurants.

Brinker International is jumping 4%, following an upgrade from BMO Capital Markets, which argues that the restaurant operator could see its earnings per share more than double, to $5 post-pandemic.

The global online on-demand food delivery services market size is poised to grow by USD 44.23 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 7% throughout the forecast period.

Just Eat Takeaway.com said on Wednesday that orders in Canada — where it operates as Skip The Dishes — rose by 98% to 23.5 million in the third quarter compared with the same period last year.

H&M Canada is teaming up with Instacart, the North American leader in online grocery delivery, to provide same-day delivery to Canadians living close to an H&M store.

UK demand for home delivery food continued to surge during the summer months, even before the latest round of Covid-19 lockdowns kick in.

Big Night, the restaurant delivery platform founded in lockdown by Hackney restaurant and cave The Laughing Heart, has raised £125,000 in crowdfunding for its stated mission to “transform restaurant delivery.”

Just a few a months after raising more than $110 million, Finnish food delivery player Wolt has raised a top-up of cash, this time from the co-founder of Delivery Hero.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will invest about $3.6 billion to double its stake in Sun Art Retail Group Ltd., taking control of China’s largest chain of hypermarts to try and fend off rivals like JD.com Inc. in e-commerce’s hottest growth arena.

Japan's first gourmet restaurant delivery app, Food-e, has launched in central Tokyo.

Khosla Ventures, the eponymous venture firm helmed by longtime Silicon Valley rainmaker Vinod Khosla, is raising $1.1 billion for its latest venture fund.

Delivery has become mission critical. According to William Blair, delivery is projected to have a 25 percent CAGR over four years, growing from about $25 billion in 2018 to $62 billion in 2022.

Kroger's marketplace could be the first of many new platforms in the coming years, but experts wonder if there's enough consumer demand for an endless-aisles strategy.

On the horizon for many restaurants now is how Mother Nature will further disrupt recovery efforts. Namely, what happens to outdoor dining in much of the country?

Salata Salad Kitchen and ZaLat Pizza executives speak on MUFSO panel about creating successful partnerships with delivery companies; Thanx CEO and NRN Power Lister Zach Goldstein urges top U.S. mayors to make third-party delivery fee caps permanent.

Four tech firms say growing demand and a shifting regulatory environment are accelerating rollouts of drones and driverless vehicles.

The reckoning of the coronavirus pandemic is still playing out in many respects.

As e-commerce continues to evolve and become part of our culture, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have focused on omnichannel strategies to reshape the consumer experience.

With rising online grocery deliveries, developers and investors see an opportunity for a high-yielding bet.

Thanks to apps, you can get just about any food you can want, delivered from any restaurant you want. Problem is, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be the same quality as dining in. Now, a high tech food packet hopes to change that.