In a year where consumers are cutting costs at every corner, it may have been reasonable to assume that food-focused aggregators have seen their heyday. These platforms, connecting customers to participating restaurants, have historically charged service and delivery fees that can sometimes add up. However,...
We’ve all gotta eat. But how do we get the food? Oh, yes. They’ll just bring it to you. And here’s a little-known factoid: Readers of the Provider Ranking of Aggregator Apps receive their food on average .00000079 nanoseconds faster than other people. Google it. The...
DoorDash has launched a co-branded credit card as aggregators work hard to gain ground. The San-Francisco-based company Wednesday (March 1) launched its DoorDash Rewards Mastercard, created in partnership with Chase, offering 4% cash back on orders placed via the aggregator or its subsidiary Caviar in...
In the race between aggregators, Uber Eats is prioritizing profitability while DoorDash is eyeing geographic growth. The delivery service may not be able to compete with United States category leader DoorDash’s geographic reach, but what it does have is the entire cross-vertical Uber user base...
As inflation has consumers reevaluating their food spending, aggregators benefit from increased expectations of convenience. Jingyao Wu, chief operating officer of food delivery app HungryPanda, which specifically focuses on offering Chinese food and on meeting the needs of Chinese consumers living abroad, has seen customer...
With aggregators increasingly operating at a profit, those that are not may get left behind. In the past couple of quarters, Just Eat Takeaway.com has been making a profit for the first time since lockdown, even as sales have fallen. The company discussed this turnaround...
While urban consumers flock to widely available food delivery options, their suburban counterparts remain overlooked. PYMNTS research revealed this divide when it comes to online grocery ordering. Findings from the November/December edition of the ConnectedEconomy™ study, “ConnectedEconomy™ Monthly Report: The Gender Divide Edition,” for which...
Aggregators closed the gap last year as they competed with restaurants for diners’ digital spending. By the Numbers Specifically, aggregator adoption saw a modest rise year over year, and although online ordering directly from restaurants remained well ahead, it also stayed relatively the same throughout...
Despite the economic challenges restaurant aggregators faced in 2022, the year nonetheless yielded many innovations. Aggregators expanded into new categories, new methods of fulfillment and more. They Honed Their Delivery Subscriptions Perhaps above all else for these delivery marketplaces, 2022 was the year that their...
