LogTech News 07/2026

Welcome back, fellow logistics enthusiasts!

Online grocery is still growing fast, with the U.S. now six straight quarters into 20%-plus growth, though the data comes with one useful caveat we'll get into. Over at Delivery Hero, Uber's takeover is starting to look more like a breakup, with buyers being lined up for the regional pieces. And on our side, we finally got a camera in the room with one of our longest-standing customers: our first-ever testimonial video is live.

And as always, you'll find the latest MotionTools release notes at the bottom.

Let's get into it.

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📢 What the industry was up to

📈 E-grocery keeps pulling spending toward speed

We've been tracking online grocery's growth run for a while now, and some new numbers are in.

In the U.S., the Brick Meets Click Grocery Shopper Survey found e-grocery sales have grown more than 20% year over year for six straight quarters, with online now taking 19% of total grocery spending, up from under 15% at the end of Q3 2024. The engine behind that: ultra-fast and same-day fulfillment. Same-day orders made up nearly 80% of all delivery orders in Q1 2026, and ultra-fast fulfillment (one hour or less) accounted for 18% of delivery orders. Both categories are growing close to three times faster than pickup, pulling spending away from quick trips to the physical store. One useful caution in the same data, via McKinsey: speed alone doesn't win. Shoppers consistently prefer a full assortment over ultra-fast delivery with a limited range.

In Germany, the HDE Online-Monitor tells a similar story at a different stage of the curve: online sales of food and drugstore goods rose 10.4% in 2025, far ahead of the roughly 4% growth across German e-commerce overall. The HDE credits older shoppers as a growth driver, with the number of online shoppers over 55 up 3.1% last year. Picnic is a good example of that German runway in motion. As Supermarktblog noted this month, the Dutch player is heading toward around €1 billion in German revenue in 2026, runs 13 distribution centers, and aims to reach roughly 40% of German households by year end.

🛒 Expanding reach by air, region, and crowd

Walmart marked more than 1 million drone deliveries from 66 stores across five metro markets, and 40% of that million came in a single quarter (Q1 of its fiscal 2027). The average drone delivery takes 23 minutes, and the fastest clocked in at four minutes and 44 seconds. To build on that, Walmart and Wing are adding seven new metro areas, keeping them on track for the 270-plus locations and 40 million Americans they're targeting by 2027.

In Germany, Knuspr extended its delivery area across Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Bavaria, adding the Rhine-Neckar region by the end of June. That brings its service to more than 500,000 additional households, with a three-hour delivery promise and over three-quarters of products sourced directly from manufacturers rather than wholesalers.

In the UK, France's Shopopop launched its crowdshipping model in late May, deliberately starting with rural areas where delivery capacity is thin. The model is the interesting part: rather than employed couriers or gig riders, "crowdshippers" pick up store-prepared orders and drop them off along their daily commute, earning around £6 per delivery to offset travel costs. Profitable in France since reaching 17 million deliveries across 7,500 stores (Carrefour, E.Leclerc, Colruyt among them), the company is now in talks with Asda, Co-op, Kingfisher, Morrisons, and Tesco, aiming for a first major UK partner by year end.

🌍 Delivery Hero, sold for parts?

The shape of Uber's Delivery Hero takeover is getting clearer, and it points toward a breakup. Uber is now sounding out buyers for Delivery Hero's regional businesses in Latin America, Asia, and Europe, working to clear the regulatory overlaps that would stand in the way of a full takeover. Bloomberg reports Uber has built its stake to around 36.8%, well up from the ~19.5% we noted last month. At the same time, the European Commission is set to extend Prosus's deadline to sell down its Delivery Hero stake to October 11, a condition of its Just Eat Takeaway acquisition, which buys Prosus some room to maneuver against another Uber attempt.

Over at Delivery Hero subsidiary Foodora, the company filled two leadership roles, naming Giuseppe Randazzo Chief International Officer for Europe and Herbert Haas Chief Operating Officer, with Randazzo steering growth and strategy across Foodora, Yemeksepeti, and foodpanda, and Haas focused on logistics and operations.

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🤝 Community Update

One reason why we are building MotionTools is that we love to empower business builders with market-leading technology. Fastdrop is one of the first customers we onboarded over 5 years ago, and we have been working very closely with them ever since. From a small, scrappy startup to a leading provider of express, same-day, and next-day deliveries in Malta – we have been there from the start and have had the privilege to help them grow and mature.

At least once a year, we visit them to work together in person and experience the operations first hand. This year we had the opportunity to have a camera and team around to film our very first customer testimonial video. We have just uploaded it, so hop on over to LinkedIn and give it a watch.

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🦾 Shipping better technology for a world in Motion

Feature highlight: Failed stops

We've adjusted how failed stops behave. It's the first step toward a fuller booking recovery flow, with standardized return and reattempt stops coming in a later update.

Failed booking stops are now final: once a stop fails, it can't be dispatched into a tour. This makes bookings behave more predictably. If all of a booking's stops have reached a final state, whether completed or failed, the booking now completes automatically instead of dropping back into a state where it needs to be dispatched again. And if it's still in progress, it simply continues with its remaining stops.