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Enlarge (credit: Walmart) Walmart is trying to beat Amazon at its own game, and the company’s latest acquisition will boost that effort, at least in the New York City area. Walmart announced that it has acquired Parcel, a Brooklyn-based delivery company that specializes in scheduled and same-day package delivery of traditional items as well as groceries, […]
Walmart has acquired Brooklyn-based delivery startup Parcel, representing the fifth technology startup acquisition by the retail giant in the past 14 months. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but it is already a done deal — it closed on September 29. Founded in 2013, Parcel is a so-called “last-mile” delivery platform designed to help […]
Published time: 6 Apr, 2017 16:24 The Russian Postal and Federal Customs Services intercepted a radioactive parcel at a logistics center at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport and sent it to a special facility for disposal on Thursday. The discovery was made “during a check of mail to be delivered outside Russia,” the Russian Post’s press-service told […]
How does one get inside the mind of a brand? As with a jellyfish or a sea slug, it’s hard to know where the brains are, and even harder to fathom its motivations. Sometimes brands seem to react to stimuli like normal organisms (see: Pepsi shrinking away from the internet’s ire earlier this week) and […]
It may be called our monthly “gift,” but most of us ladies see our cycles as anything but. Luckily, there’s a company that’s hoping to actually turn your period into something of a gift … or at least, give you the gift of organic tampons delivered to your door on a monthly basis. Meet Le […]
Brenda Johnson has told of her shock when Emirates airline told her she would incur huge costs for checking an additional bag into the hold, even though it contained clothes for orphans. The Dubai-based airline allegedly told her she would have to pay the excess baggage charge, which at £40 per kilo amounts to a […]
