Multiple food-delivery services filed a lawsuit against New York City on July 5 seeking to block a new law establishing higher minimum wages for food-delivery workers, including app-based delivery workers. DoorDash and Grubhub filed a joint lawsuit against the city in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, while Uber, the parent company of Uber…
Delivery Companies, Including Doordash, Uber, Sue New York City Over Minimum Wage Law
Tesla Beats 2nd-Quarter Delivery Estimates as Price Cuts Pay Off
Tesla Inc. on Sunday said it delivered a record number of vehicles in the second quarter, topping market estimates as price cuts and U.S. federal credits helped make its electric vehicles more affordable. The Elon Musk-led company handed 466,140 vehicles in the April to June period, up 10 percent from the preceding quarter, and 83…
Grocery Delivery Services Pros and Cons
The pandemic forced many people to change their way of life. One change was the way Americans grocery shop. Online shopping and delivery were trending upward before COVID, but it really took off during the shutdown. Many of these online shoppers are using grocery delivery services. But who are these delivery services? What are their…
Delivery Driver Gets Life for Killing Woman, Setting Fire
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—An appliance delivery man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for beating a 75-year-old woman to death and setting her on fire at her Florida home. A Palm Beach County circuit judge gave Jorge Dupre Lachazo two life sentences, plus another 30-year sentence, according to court records. The 24-year-old was convicted…
Boeing, Airbus Hit Back Over Criticism of Delivery Delays
DUBLIN—The world’s two largest planemakers defended themselves on Tuesday following criticism over delivery delays, with a Boeing executive saying increasing production after COVID-19 lockdowns was “not as easy as an on/off switch.” Aircraft leasing firms have used a major industry conference to hammer manufacturers over delays. Air Lease executive chairman Steven Udvar-Hazy said they had…
Tesla Cuts Delivery Waiting Time for All Model 3, Model Y Cars
BEIJING—Tesla has cut the delivery waiting time for all Model 3 and Model Y vehicles to a minimum of one week, it said on its website on Tuesday. The U.S. automaker added to its electric vehicle inventory in Shanghai at its fastest pace ever in October, data from China Merchants Bank International (CMBI) showed, at…
British Pubs Face Beer Shortage Amid Drivers’ Strike
British pubs are facing the prospect of a beer shortage, as the union for one of the United Kingdom’s largest brewery-delivery companies plans to go on strike at the end of the month. Around 1,000 employees at GXO Logistics, which is responsible for nearly 40 percent of beer deliveries to pubs and clubs in the United…
Spending: Meal Kits to Your Culinary Rescue
By Patricia Mertz Esswein From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance No more figuring out what to do with a giant bunch of parsley or a tub of sour cream before it spoils. A meal kit—a box of chef-created recipes and pre-measured ingredients delivered to your home—will help reduce food waste and spice up your cooking, with a…
Woman Watched Doctors Save Her Life From Outside Her Body — After Predicting She’d Die Giving Birth
Stephanie Arnold was already a mother to two young girls, but when she became pregnant with her third child, she had a bad feeling. It wasn’t pregnancy jitters; it wasn’t fear of the unknown — it was a premonition. “I knew 100 percent I was going to die giving birth to my son,” Arnold told Today….
Ford Begins Production for E-Transit, Deliveries to Begin in Coming Weeks
Ford Motor Co. has started production of its electric E-Transit cargo vans in Kansas City, Missouri, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday, citing a company executive. What Happened Deliveries for the electric E-Transit in the U.S. will begin in the coming weeks. Ford had previously opened reservations for the electric E-Transit in May last year and said…
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