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Delivery apps

Amazon’s surprising new delivery partners: Rural mom-and-pop shops

By Jason Del Rey

The empty promise of instant delivery

By Terry Nguyen

Amazon will pay nearly $62 million over “outrageous” practice of pocketing driver tips

By Jason Del Rey

What’s going on with the USPS this holiday season?

By Melinda Fakuade

A new Amazon feature should make it easier to get a grocery delivery slot this winter

By Jason Del Rey

The May Day strike from Amazon, Instacart, and Target workers didn’t stop business. It was still a success.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Your food delivery app comes at a cost to restaurants

By Daniel Markus

How to get groceries when delivery services are slammed

By Terry Nguyen

Sneeze guards, toilet paper, and visits from lonely seniors: Running a post office during the pandemic

By Jason Del Rey

How not to be a jerk while ordering groceries during a pandemic

By Jason Del Rey

DoorDash’s anti-worker tactics have backfired spectacularly

By Ian Millhiser

Grubhub sale rumors highlight the state of the struggling food-delivery industry

By Rani Molla

Amazon’s new area of domination: its own package delivery

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon Prime one-day shipping apparently doesn’t mean one-day delivery

By Jason Del Rey

DoorDash and Uber Eats aren’t collecting sales tax on delivery fees in some states. That could be a problem.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Amazon’s new plan to dominate grocery delivery: making AmazonFresh totally free for Prime members

By Jason Del Rey

DoorDash says it will roll out tipping changes to drivers sometime next month

By Shirin Ghaffary

Uber Eats is facing a price war — just like Uber

By Rani Molla

Google’s Wing has landed the FAA’s first approval for drone delivery

By Emily Stewart

Pressure is mounting on food delivery app DoorDash to change its controversial tipping policy

By Shirin Ghaffary

Gig economy tech companies like Instacart have been accused of tip theft. But the problem is bigger than that.

By Shirin Ghaffary

A new $100 million investment values Postmates at $1.85 billion ahead of its IPO

By Theodore Schleifer and Jason Del Rey

Full Q&A: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Why Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company

By Eric Johnson

Amazon has officially killed the Whole Foods-Instacart partnership

By Jason Del Rey

Instacart’s new $7 billion valuation is a bet on the future of grocery delivery — not a wager against Amazon

By Jason Del Rey

Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta will speak at Code Commerce

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon claims it doesn’t want to take on UPS and FedEx. So why is it introducing tons of its own Amazon delivery vans?

By Jason Del Rey

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says UberEats has a $6 billion bookings run rate

By Johana Bhuiyan

Full video and transcript: Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake at Code 2018

By Recode Staff

It looks like President Trump’s attacks on Amazon go beyond tweets: He reportedly lobbied the USPS to double delivery rates

By Jason Del Rey

The online grocer Good Eggs almost went bankrupt — but now a $50 million investment from Silicon Valley bigwig Bill Gurley has given it new life

By Jason Del Rey

Why Walmart is partnering with everyone except Instacart for its grocery delivery service

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon’s newest delivery option for Prime members: Inside their car

By Jason Del Rey

Uber Eats is the fastest-growing meal delivery service in the U.S.

By Rani Molla

Postmates and DoorDash have discussed a merger to fend off Uber, GrubHub and Amazon

By Jason Del Rey and Theodore Schleifer

Trump keeps bashing Amazon for its Postal Service pact — but he’s overlooking a different controversial deal that gives Chinese merchants an advantage in the U.S.

By Jason Del Rey

HelloFresh is now bigger than Blue Apron in the U.S.

By Rani Molla

Watch DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and Cheesecake Factory President David Gordon: Restaurant delivery is still a growth market

By Recode Staff

Restaurant delivery is harder than you think. DoorDash CEO Tony Xu explains.

By Dan Frommer