To appease shoppers in a hurry for their online purchases, eBay and Amazon have been working to develop faster delivery methods, and they’re not alone. On Monday, the United States Postal Service gave notice it is expanding the market test Read more
It may have seemed like a joke when eBay CEO John Donahoe told BusinessWeek that excess capacity in newspaper trucks could make same-day delivery economical. But one major rival is taking the concept seriously. Amazon is using the same logistics network that Read more
Google is one of a number of entities working on developing a same-day delivery service, and it recently surveyed users to find out how much they would be willing to pay for such a service. (Google is still not charging Read more
More shoppers can get same-day delivery as Amazon expands its service to more areas. Amazon issued a press release on Wednesday announcing it has expanded Same-Day Delivery for customers in Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC Read more
eBay denied it was closing down eBay Now after a report surfaced in an online publication, but it is scaling back its efforts to offer a same-day delivery service. The news comes four months after eBay CEO John Donahoe downplayed the service Read more
Ecommerce giants are trying to build out same-day delivery services – but why are they taking on this challenge, and which companies are poised to win? Grand Junction founder and CEO Rob Howard has answers to these questions and more. His company Read more
There are signs that same-day delivery may not be as winning a model as some had hoped. The USPS suspended one of two pilot programs called Metro Post due to a lack of participation from retailers, and eBay CEO John Read more
On the heels of a “60 Minutes” feature about Amazon during which the company revealed its concept of unmanned drones to deliver packages to shoppers’ doorsteps, eBay invited Bloomberg West TV for a tour of its headquarters and commerce innovation Read more
Beginning today, shoppers in Dallas will be able to order items from some local stores and get the items within an hour. The eBay Now same-day delivery service that’s currently available in San Francisco, Bay Area Peninsula, New York (Manhattan, Read more
