Shift to online shopping creates big opportunities for logistics firms
(WorldNews Business)

Teleport someone off the main thoroughfare of a major city in 2009 and land them in the same place a decade in the future and what might they notice? The once-ubiquitous Blackberry phone is conspicuously absent from the hands of most commuters, and in many cities, major department stores and smaller independent shops are gone from the high street, too. But it would only be a matter of seconds before one of a legion of bikes and scooters topped with brightly branded cooler bags zipped across the road, perhaps avoiding a box truck laden with packages. Food delivery applications such as Careem Now, Uber Eats and Deliveroo, many of which utilise the ride-sharing software developed earlier in the...