Luxury carmaker Bentley is cruising into its second year in a row of record sales, leaving other carmakers in the dust. Multiple cruise lines are canceling trips as virus cases hit passengers and hurt travel demand. Which lines are they? Walmart is expanding its grocery delivery service, putting food directly in your fridge. But would people use…

Lockheed Martin delivered a total of 142 F-35 fighter jets to the United States and its allies, three more than originally planned, the world’s largest defense contractor said on Monday. The company was expected to deliver between 133 and 139 jets in 2021. Last year, two new countries—Switzerland and Finland—selected Lockheed’s F-35 for their new…

Tesla Inc.’s shares were set to open this year at their highest in about a month after reporting stronger-than-expected quarterly deliveries of its electric cars, allaying fears of supply chain woes that other automakers have struggled with. Shares of the world’s most valuable carmaker were up about 7 percent at $1,126.5 in premarket trading. “Q4…

SAN FRANCISCO—Self-driving tech startup Nuro said on Wednesday it was rolling out California’s first commercial autonomous delivery service in partnership with 7-Eleven, a convenience store operator. Nuro and rivals such as Waymo are launching or planning to launch autonomous delivery services with regulatory approval in the United States, though the services are limited or not…

PepsiCo Inc. will get its first set of Tesla Inc. electric trucks in the fourth quarter, the packaged food maker’s top boss Ramon Laguarta said in an interview with CNBC on Monday. The maker of Mountain Dew soda and Doritos chips in December 2017 reserved 100 of Tesla’s electric semi trucks as it sought to…

LOS ANGELES—Labor shortages have cut into Amazon.com Inc.’s plan to make one-day delivery standard for members of its Prime loyalty club, delaying its bid to cement its lead in e-commerce and sending costs surging ahead of the all-important holiday season. The comments from the world’s biggest online retailer come as staffing emerges as a significant…

Airbus jetliner deliveries were flat in September, compared with the previous month, heralding another end-year sprint to allow the European planemaker to reach its overall 2021 target. Airbus delivered 40 aircraft last month to bring the total so far this year to 424 aircraft, up 24 percent from the same point a year ago, which…

LONDON—British supermarket group Asda will extend a rapid online service for delivery within one hour to 96 stores after a trial exceeded expectations, it said on Friday. Asda, which trails market leader Tesco and Sainsbury’s in annual sales, had launched the “Express Delivery” service with a four-store trial in June. Rapid delivery is the latest…

NEW YORK—Walmart says it will start commercializing its delivery service, using contract workers, autonomous vehicles and even drones to deliver other retailers’ products directly to their customers’ homes as fast as just a few hours. Walmart will dispatch contract workers from its Spark delivery network, which was launched in 2018, to merchants’ stores to pick…

By Jesenia De Moya Correa From The Philadelphia Inquirer Richard Hernández bought Sabor Rico Bakery (formerly known as A&Y) in Philadelphia’s Franklinville neighborhood in December 2019, three months before the pandemic hit. He didn’t even get the chance to change the store’s sign before he found himself struggling to keep his small business open. While…