Rapid delivery news & analysis – Page 37
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NewsMedia Bites 9 Apr: Tesco, Morrisons/Deliveroo, AG Barr
Tesco pressed ahead with its dividend payment despite flack, Morrisons partners with Deliveroo for 30 minutes grocery delivery and AG Barr cancels dividend
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NewsMorrisons extends Deliveroo deal to start delivering from 130+ stores
The service will start today with a range of 70 essential household items
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NewsMcColl’s links with Deliveroo to offer first home deliveries
Source: Deliveroo A range of essential items will initially be delivered from 120 McColl’s stores The range will include food and drink, toiletries, cleaning products, beer, wine and magazines All deliveries will be contact-free to ensure the safety of customers ...
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NewsDeliveroo threatens to sack riders using restaurants with no social distancing
Order pick-ups have become increasingly concentrated around the few restaurants still offering takeaways
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NewsM&S’s BP petrol station stores partner with Deliveroo
The move will ‘help make sure isolated people at home have access to household essentials’, Deliveroo said
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NewsDeliveroo launches ‘no contact’ drop-offs for coronavirus self-isolators
Customers can now use the app to request that the food is left on the doorstep
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NewsCoronavirus: Deliveroo launches support fund for sick riders
It will pay out to impacted delivery riders in excess of the equivalent of UK statutory sick pay for up to 14 days
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NewsJust Eat to trial delivery via drones at university
The food delivery giant has partnered with drone delivery firm Manna to offer the service at University College Dublin
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NewsMedia Bites 3 March: Coronavirus, Tesco, Just Eat Takeaway.com
British supermarkets have drawn up “feed the nation” contingency plans that would help the country cope with any panic-buying brought on by a sudden escalation of the coronavirus outbreak.
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NewsCity Snapshot: Just Eat Takeaway.com takes action against Delivery Hero
Just Eat Takeaway.com is taking action against German rival Delivery Hero, accusing it of breaking a standstill agreement by announcing plans to increase its stake in the newly merged UK-listed firm.
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NewsDeliveroo calls for freedom to pass on funds to address ‘chef shortage’
Source: HIT Training/Deliveroo Deliveroo has called on the government to let companies pass a bigger cut of their Apprenticeship Levy funds “down the supply chain” to tackle what it has called a “national chef shortage”. The food delivery company said it was lobbying government to “urgently ...
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NewsAmazon and Deliveroo accuse CMA of ‘speculative’ competition claims
In a joint submission, the two companies said the CMA had ‘mischaracterised’ the restaurant and on-demand grocery delivery markets
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NewsMedia Bites 30 Jan: Deliveroo/Amazon, McDonald’s, UK Retail
Deliveroo and Amazon have accused Britain’s competition watchdog of failing to provide “credible evidence” that a deal between the two companies would harm competition.
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NewsJust Eat agrees UK partnership with McDonald’s
Just Eat has agreed to partner nationwide with McDonald’s in the UK and Ireland to become the fast food chain’s second exclusive delivery partner for McDelivery.
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NewsMedia Bites 28 Jan: Sainsbury’s, low & no, Amazon/Deliveroo
Sainsbury’s pledges to become carbon neutral by 2040, low & no beverages spike in value and Deliveroo attacks the CMA investigation into its proposed tie-up with Amazon
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NewsDeliveroo launches health-focused delivery-only restaurant brands
Deliveroo will create the brands from scratch and license them to restaurants operating from their own kitchens
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Comment & OpinionCMA interest in Just Eat's £5.9bn acquisition by Takeaway.com deal should not be a shock
It is likely to approve the deal, but the Competition & Markets Authority is right to take a look at it
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NewsCity Snapshot: CMA threatens £6bn Just Eat merger
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has thrown a spanner into the merger of Just Eat and Takeaway.com by announcing it has opened an investigation into the deal just as it was poised to complete. Plus, trading updates from Marston’s, Carrefour and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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NewsMedia Bites 24 Jan: Morrisons, Just Eat, Tesco/Plastic
About 3,000 management jobs are being cut at Wm Morrison as part of a shake-up of its stores that will also involve the hiring of thousands of shopfloor workers
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NewsMedia Bites 22 Jan: Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Deliveroo
Sainsbury’s is poised to axe hundreds of managers in a cost-cutting drive at the supermarket chain.