Hyperlocal delivery is a business model and service that focusses on delivering goods and services to customers within a small geographic area, often within the same city or neighbourhood. The term ...

UPS overshadowed its earnings report last week when it announced a deal to take reverse logistics startup Happy Returns off Paypal’s hands, saying the new returns capabilities would be good for ...

Shopping used to be an event—smiling greeters, meticulous window displays, perfume-sample sprayers, retail workers with the sole job of helping you pick out and try on clothes. Back in the 1950s, ...

Many retailers are intent on expanding shipping and delivery options to keep up with how Amazon has revolutionized fulfillment, but the shoppers they are looking to satisfy are expecting more — and ...

If you walk down Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, you might see a brightly striped cargo trike leave a small storefront. The location is one in a growing network of “nano distribution centers,” ...

Scale-up efforts are focused on operational safety, delivery integrity and the creation of infrastructure to support ...

It’s the era of instant, and hyperlocal delivery services and startups in India are capitalising on the wave of millennials who want things delivered at their doorsteps at the tap of a button.

Flipkart on Tuesday launched a hyperlocal service in suburbs of Bangalore, four years after the e-commerce group abruptly concluded its previous foray into this category. The e-commerce group, owned ...