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Freight forwarder Deutsche Post DHL CEO Frank Appel spoke to a German regional newspaper, mentioning that the company plans to provide its customers near-exact delivery time forecasts by email in advance. This email message will be followed with another alert 15 minutes before the package reaches...

Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) fell more than 7% Tuesday after reporting second-quarter results, highlighted by a miss on U.S. same-store sales. Here is a summary of how some of the Street's top analysts reacted to the print. The Analysts Morgan Stanley's John Glass maintains an...

TFI International (TSX:TFI) promoted Kal Atwal to executive vice president, expanding his existing responsibilities heading TForce Final Mile Canada to include its counterparts in the United States "I am excited at the prospect of Kal bringing to our U.S. operations his extensive industry...

Good day, Mobility companies aren't necessarily known for their civic mindedness, so perhaps it's not so surprising that equity was a central theme at a TechCrunch mobility conference held earlier this week in San Jose, California. TC Editor Matthew Panzarino set the tone with his introduction,...

Purolator introduced a new e-commerce service that offers same- and next-day deliveries in Canada seven days a week.  Purolator, the largest courier in the country, is offering QuickShip in four metropolitan areas – Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa.  The company announced QuickShip on July...

Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) investment in online on-demand food delivery major Deliveroo this May has come under scrutiny in the U.K. The country's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) served an initial enforcement order (IEO) to the two companies in June, to clear its concerns on the...

Good day, Though Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made it clear that it looks to build its own delivery network, and phase out its last-mile delivery partners like FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX), USPS, and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS), the operations do not seem to be going according to its plans. A...

Fourth-party logistics provider (4PL) MonarchFx said Tuesday that same-day delivery provider DeliveryCircle LLC has joined the Monarch alliance, expanding Monarch's capabilities in the e-commerce fulfillment segment. As a 4PL, Monarch, a unit of Raleigh, North Carolina-based consultancy Tompkins...

Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant, has announced that it will replace 40 percent of all its last-mile delivery fleets with electric vehicles by March 2020. This move is in line with the company's overall carbon emissions goals. Ekart, the company's logistics arm, expects this switch to electric...

More than 1,500 Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) stores will double as a pickup location for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) by the end of 2019. What Happened Amazon introduced Thursday a new service called Counter, a network of pickup points where consumers can walk into a Rite Aid store to pick...

A strike by thousands of union workers at major Southern California supermarket chains would have a huge upside for non-union big box grocers and e-retailers but would likely disrupt other online grocery delivery services, industry experts said. "We know Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will not be...

From the manufacturers floor right to your door, technology is ramping up in autonomous and the last-mile delivery space.

Canada-based Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP) hosted its annual Shopify Unite conference in Toronto, and one of the more notable takeaways was the announcement of a $1-billion investment Wednesday to create a new network of fulfillment centers in the U.S. The Analysts KeyBanc Capital Markets' Josh Beck...

The state of Texas has made it a criminal offense for anyone to steal mail, parcels and other correspondence, bringing state law enforcement power to bear on crimes that in the past were either considered a federal offense or treated by the state as general theft. The legislation, H.B. 37, was...

Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) unveiled a same-day delivery option on 65,000 online items in the latest chapter of the delivery wars between mega-retailers. Announced on June 13, Minneapolis-based Target is offering the service through its Shipt delivery unit, which became part of Target after it was...