Uber has announced a grocery delivery partnership spanning hundreds of stores with Midwestern retailer Meijer. According to a press release, Uber Eats is adding nearly 250 of the supermarket chain’s approximately 500 stores to its marketplace, expanding grocery delivery options in six states. “Fresh food,...
Uber Eats and Cartken have partnered to enable food delivery by robots in Miami. The instant delivery firm and the robotics company began operating this service with select merchants Thursday (Dec. 15) and plan to expand it to additional cities in 2023, Uber said in a Thursday press release. ...
This week, Food Lion expands eCommerce, Target invests in grocery delivery, and Getir buys Gorillas. Ahold Delhaize subsidiary Food Lion, which has more than 1,100 stores across 10 Southeastern and mid-Atlantic states, announced Monday (Dec. 12) that it is expanding its Food Lion to Go...
Kroger is delivering flowers on demand via DoorDash in a bid to differentiate its offerings. The supermarket group announced Monday (Dec. 12) that, across its various supermarket chains, it is partnering with the aggregator to bring floral arrangements and sushi to consumers’ doors, a move...
DoorDash and Grubhub are reportedly lobbying New York City to change its delivery fee cap. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Dec. 12) that the bill would require these and other delivery companies to offer basic services at the 15% commission cap many other cities...
Retreating food delivery firms are counting on their home markets to keep them alive. After years of ascendency and a pandemic-fueled bump in demand during 2020 and 2021, this year has been difficult for many food delivery platforms. It all started when Germany’s Delivery Hero...
DoorDash breaks its perfect score streak in December’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Aggregators. The ranking leverages a proprietary combination of publicly available information as well as app usage data to which PYMNTS has access to evaluate which aggregators are winning the game and which...
Even as ultrafast grocers struggle worldwide, Getir is reportedly acquiring Gorillas, with help from investors. According to European startup news outlet Sifted, sources familiar with the matter say that Getir, based in Turkey, will soon announce the deal to buy its competitor, with an additional...
Grocers believe that delivery options are essential to securing lasting relationships with their customers. By the Numbers Research from PYMNTS’ study “Big Retail’s Innovation Mandate: Convenience and Personalization,” created in collaboration with ACI Worldwide, which drew from a survey of 300 U.S. and U.K. retailers,...
