Amazon’s contract drivers are hanging cell phones in TREES next to distribution stations and Whole Foods stores in Chicago so they can get notifications to pick up deliveries before rivals Amazon Flex drivers are hanging phones in trees near a Whole Foods store The idea is to help them grab incoming orders in faster via … Read more
Waitrose shopping in HALF AN HOUR! Supermarket is trialling super speedy groceries to more than half a million customers after signing deal with Deliveroo Waitrose said customers living in trial areas could expect deliveries within half an hour More than 500 products will be available to be picked up with takeaway drivers Waitrose used to … Read more
Horticulturalists have issued a warning after ‘hundreds’ of British gardeners received unsolicited deliveries of seeds thought to have been sent from China. The mysterious packages have been posted to customers who previously made legitimate seed purchases through sites such as Amazon marketplace and eBay. But many of the gardeners were left baffled after receiving unexpected … Read more
Online shopping used to be so simple and convenient. You could have anything you wished for delivered to your door at the touch of a button – often within 24 hours. Not in? No sweat. The driver would happily leave your parcel with a friendly neighbour for safekeeping. Soaring demand: Couriers are scrambling to keep … Read more
Royal Mail BANS deliveries to problem street after a 52-year-old postwoman is SHOT in the face with an airgun while on duty Bosses said all future deliveries to Spring Bank Rise in Keighley are suspended The postwoman was blasted in the face by a powerful airgun earlier this week The 52-year-old was rushed to hospital … Read more
Hungry McDonald’s customers have been queuing for up to two hours today after it reopened 168 drive-thrus – with police being called out to manage traffic at some of its restaurants. The fast-food giant is set to reopen nearly 1,000 restaurants for drive-thru and McDelivery customers over the next three days. In a bid to … Read more
Costa Coffee will reopen another 29 stores across Britain for deliveries and drive-through orders taking the total to 33 as all staff are given PPE Four Costa branches re-opened in Manchester, Bristol and Mansfield on April 24 Another 12 delivery only and 17 drive-through stores are re-opening today Costa Coffee joins the likes of McDonald’s … Read more
Money Mail today calls on the nation’s supermarkets to do more to ensure the elderly and vulnerable can have food delivered to their homes. We have now heard from hundreds of anxious readers who say they have been told to stay at home but cannot get an online supermarket delivery slot. Around 300 of your … Read more
Royal Mail scraps all Saturday letter deliveries until further notice saying it is because of the coronavirus crisis The Royal Mail is set to ‘temporarily’ cut back its services from this weekend People will face a two-day for letters as the post does not come on Sundays But most parcels will not be impacted and … Read more
Burger King to ramp up deliveries as it unveils lockdown exit plan Burger King has so far reopened six of its 550 restaurants for deliveries It now plans to reopen ten more sites a week By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:21 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:21 BST, 25 April … Read more