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Author: BY PETER S. GOODMAN - Publish Date: December 3, 2021 at 12:29AM A shipping terminal in Kansas reveals the fundamental problem — no one can plan, and no one is sure what will happen next.

Author: BY CORAL MURPHY MARCOS - Publish Date: October 15, 2021 at 12:47AM Delivery workers started watch groups during the summer after bike thefts rose. Our reporter visited with one of these groups.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: October 14, 2021 at 02:37AM Bike robbers have been targeting food delivery workers in New York City. Now many of the workers are forming watch groups to protect one another.

Author: BY SHIRA OVIDE - Publish Date: September 22, 2021 at 11:36PM We all want ice cream fast, but app delivery services make it too easy for us to ignore their true cost.

Author: BY MIKE ISAAC - Publish Date: January 24, 2021 at 07:42AM The layoffs include most of the executive team at Postmates, the food delivery app that Uber bought last year.

Author: BY GREG BENSINGER - Publish Date: December 9, 2020 at 07:00AM High fees are cutting already thin margins to the bone.

Author: BY FLORENCE FABRICANT - Publish Date: July 7, 2020 at 07:04AM The chef Yohei Ishida is now shipping ramen kits, with two varieties, from his restaurant Ramen Ishida.

Author: BY MIKE ISAAC AND ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: June 30, 2020 at 07:29AM The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse of its main business.

Author: KIMON de GREEF - Publish Date: August 24, 2019 at 07:00AM As food-delivery apps take off in South Africa, thousands of motorbike riders, many migrants desperate for work, have signed up. For some, it is their last job.

Author: NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: July 3, 2019 at 07:00AM A machine-dominated workplace can make employees more mechanical themselves. But there is room for initiative, and small acts of rebellion.

Author: RAYMOND ZHONG and CAROLYN ZHANG - Publish Date: May 28, 2019 at 07:00AM The noodles and barbecue arrive within 30 minutes. The containers they come in could be around for hundreds of years thereafter.

Author: MICHAEL J. de la MERCED - Publish Date: May 17, 2019 at 07:00AM The $575 million investment strengthens one of the biggest overseas rivals to Uber’s food-delivery division, which the ride-hailing company considers a key business.

Author: ALEXANDRA STEVENSON - Publish Date: May 17, 2019 at 07:00AM A successful initial public offering by the fast growing, big spending coffee company would buck the recent trend of weakness among tech start-ups in China.

Author: MIKE ISAAC - Publish Date: April 28, 2019 at 07:00AM It’s not Lyft or Didi Chuxing or another ride-hailing firm. Instead, Uber sees itself as the Amazon of transportation.

Author: JOHN HERRMAN - Publish Date: January 26, 2019 at 07:00AM A clandestine society receives an unending stream of products. They create Amazon’s reality. Is there such a thing as too much free stuff?

Author: CADE METZ - Publish Date: December 18, 2018 at 07:00AM With driverless passenger services slow to become realities, the autonomous industry is casting about for ways to profitably use its technology.