After more than a decade of subscription meal services, Blue Apron’s tastes are changing. The company announced last week that it would transition from a weekly subscription model to a new pay-as-you-go system for meal kits, with new offerings that include one-pan meals and microwavable dishes. “People don’t...
Grubhub and Blue Apron owner Wonder has reportedly raised $600 million in new funding. The deal brings Wonder nearer to developing what CEO Mark Lore described to Bloomberg News Tuesday (May 6) as a “super app for mealtime.” The financing also brings the company’s valuation to more than $7 billion, the...
As consumers increasingly view their food habits not in disparate segments — grocery, restaurant, meal kit — but as one connected “eats” category, Wonder is seizing on the new dining opportunities this opens up. The omnichannel food hall company, founded and helmed by Jet.com Co-founder...
Increasingly throughout this past year, meal kits have begun to be not so much their own discrete category as an integrated piece of a larger food eCommerce system. Take, for instance, Blue Apron. In late September, omnichannel food hall company Wonder, founded and led by...
March 04, 2024
As consumers increasingly view their food habits not in disparate segments — grocery, restaurant, meal kit — but as one connected “eats” category, Wonder is seizing on the new dining opportunities this opens up. The omnichannel food hall company, founded and helmed by Jet.com Co-founder Marc Lore, recently opened a location in a Walmart. Wonder […]
October 04, 2023
A hallmark of subscription startups has always been the lure of recurring revenues. A recurring theme has also been that profits are elusive — and sometimes the pressures on the business...
June 26, 2023
As meal kit providers look to weather the challenges of inflation, many have been forced to rethink their business models. Blue Apron CEO Linda Findley tells PYMNTS in an interview...
April 18, 2023
Consumers are cutting back on their product subscriptions, with many rethinking their food purchasing. By the Numbers Research from PYMNTS’ new study, “Subscription Commerce Readiness Report: Bridging the Gap Between...
July 09, 2026
GrubHub/Blue Apron owner Wonder is reportedly arranging hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding. That’s according to a Wednesday (July 8) report from The Information, which said the round—potentially Wonder’s last before going public—could value the company at $9 billion. Wonder has arranged to give investors extra shares if its stock price in an […]
August 11, 2025
After more than a decade of subscription meal services, Blue Apron’s tastes are changing. The company announced last week that it would transition from a weekly subscription model to a new...
May 06, 2025
Grubhub and Blue Apron owner Wonder has reportedly raised $600 million in new funding. The deal brings Wonder nearer to developing what CEO Mark Lore described to Bloomberg News Tuesday (May 6) as a “super app...
September 29, 2023
Blue Apron, a provider of meal kits, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Wonder Group, a company focused on at-home dining and food delivery. The acquisition...