Uber is closing down its alcohol delivery business, Drizly. The move comes three years after Uber bought Drizly for $1.1 billion, Axios reported Monday (Jan. 15), citing Uber’s senior vice president of delivery, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty. “After three years of Drizly operating independently within the Uber family, we’ve decided to close...
Instacart and DoorDash are raising prices in Seattle following the city’s new minimum pay law. Seattle in 2022 passed legislation that increased wages for drivers for the delivery apps. That law went into effect Saturday (Jan. 13), and is happening as the federal government is...
DoorDash is reportedly aiming to diversify beyond meal deliveries to diners in the U.S. “The two largest areas of investment are expansion and penetration outside of the U.S., as well as the same outside of restaurants,” CEO Tony Xu said in an interview with the Financial Times (FT)...
With changing wage laws shaking up the economics of restaurant delivery, key players have begun changing their approach. For instance, in California, a new minimum wage law requiring that fast-food workers receive at least $20 an hour, where previously the average hourly pay for fast-food...
Instacart is targeting employers’ office snack budgets, as aggregators compete for businesses’ food spending. On Tuesday (Dec. 12), meal benefits platform Sharebite announced a partnership with the grocery technology company, through which Sharebite clients receive a free one-year Instacart Business account, enabling snack and grocery...
As evolving regulations change the economics of third-party restaurant delivery, DoorDash is rolling back certain driver perks in New York City in response to the increased minimum wage for delivery workers. The United States’ leading aggregator announced Monday (Dec. 4) that it is making changes...
Uber’s delivery business is expanding beyond restaurants to include courier service from merchants not partnered with the company — a move that comes as aggregators race to capture consumers’ loyalty outside of mealtimes. The company announced Tuesday (Dec. 5) the launch of its “Store Pickup”...
DoorDash is offering on-demand delivery of consumer electronics from Best Buy. The new partnership marks the appearance of a national consumer electronics retailer on the local commerce platform, DoorDash said in a Wednesday (Nov. 29) press release. “This partnership provides consumers access to Best Buy’s...
Amazon has reportedly surpassed UPS to become America’s largest delivery business. The eCommerce behemoth delivered more packages to consumers in the U.S. last year than UPS — and also has led FedEx since 2020 — and is on target to widen that gap even further, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday...