Crowd-based shipping service lets you use Waffle House for pickups

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If you're running a crowd-driven shipping startup that delivers packages through helpful travelers, where would you have people pick up their goods? A restaurant, apparently. Roadie has forged a deal that will have Waffle House locations serve as some of its pickup points -- yes, you can get pecan waffles at the same time as you're collecting your new food mixer. The theory goes that you're meeting at a safe, friendly place instead of taking chances with your rendezvous. It's a strange move, but it makes sense. Roadie doesn't have (or need) the store network of a big courier like FedEx or UPS, so it might as well choose a nationwide retail chain that you probably know well.


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Via: Wall Street Journal


Source: Waffle House (PR Newswire)


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