Harris Teeter, the grocery chain with the name most likely to make people of all ages giggle hysterically, is currently testing a delivery partnership with car-hailing service Uber. Yes, instead of ordering a ride to bring you home with your groceries, you can simply order a ride for your groceries, combining the store’s existing order-picking service with drivers who are already cruising around looking for fares. [More]
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Report: Amazon Offers Flex Drivers Opportunity To Deliver Regular Amazon.com Packages
By 2.18.16
Last year, Amazon introduced Flex, an on-demand workforce that makes deliveries for orders placed through the Prime Now app. The service is available in 14 cities, and lets customers order from a narrow selection of only about 10,000 Amazon items for delivery within two hours. Some drivers for Flex say that they have been asked to try working for a new, experimental service: delivering regular Amazon.com orders to residential addresses. [More]
