Under the category of “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” is the return of the Automat.
The original Automat opened in Berlin in 1895. America’s first Automat was opened by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in Philadelphia, in 1902. Their Automat chain, Horn and Hardart, grew in popularity, with over 100 restaurants in New York City by the 1950s.
Restaurants served home-style comfort food. Many even had a wall of pies, with hot coffee being one of their […]
In the early 1900s, salespeople delivered Wall’s ice cream on tricycles. Today, the concept is resurrected.
Thomas Wall started selling ice cream as a seasonal product designed to offset slumping sausage sales during the summer. Lever Brothers bought Wall’s company; it later merged with Maragarine Unie to become Unilever, a multinational corporation now known as the “king of ice cream.” Sold in 63 countries, its ice cream brand portfolio now accounts for 19% of the global market. In 2020, as the […]
Pfizer is building an ambitious supply chain and distribution system to deliver hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine to vaccination sites in three days.
The vaccine is manufactured in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Puurs, Belgium at a rate of 7.6 million doses daily. Shipping containers that can keep the loaded doses at a temperature of -100 Fahrenheit for up to 10 days are used to transport doses from the manufacturing sites to nearby airports as cargo on planes from FedEx, […]
Florida’s retirees can soon receive their prescription drugs from CVS delivered by UPS’s drones.
The touchless prescription drug delivery helps protect seniors from COVID-19 as they are more vulnerable to contracting the virus, and have a higher risk of severe illness and death.
Video Spotlight: UPS and CVS make residential drone delivery (Nov 5, 2019, UPS)
This post is based on the Tech Crunch article, UPS and CVS will offer prescription drug delivery to […]