Deliveroo will be adding more specific advertising opportunities for brands, with a new program called Deliveroo Media and Ecommerce, a company press release said Wednesday (June 29). The new ad platform will allow fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands to advertise to Deliveroo’s many customers. The...
As the third-party restaurant aggregator model continues to pose challenges from a profitability standpoint, leading players are continuing to face these challenges head-on, duking it out for consumers’ delivery spending. Just Eat Takeaway, for its part, parent company of Chicago-based aggregator Grubhub, is not immediately...
In the United Kingdom’s on-demand delivery sector — also known as quick-commerce or Q-Commerce — the story so far has been one of intense competition and consolidation as foreign companies like Germany’s Gorillas, Turkey’s Getir or U.S.-based Gopuff vie for space in the crowded market...
Europe’s largest online meal ordering service is raising the commission it charges to restaurants throughout the region. As Reuters reported Monday (June 27), Just Eat Takeaway, which owns Grubhub, will increase its commissions by 1%. “I can confirm that in response to rising inflation and...
As grocers continue to seek out ways to codify their eCommerce success of the past few years into long-term eGrocery businesses, many are developing their own fulfillment networks in an effort to escape reliance on Instacart. For example, Kroger, the United States’ largest pure-play grocer,...
As restaurant and grocery aggregators increasingly compete for the same occasions, Instacart is challenging its restaurant competitors’ hold on the virtual convenience store space. On Thursday (June 23), the grocery delivery service announced the expansion of its partnership with Walmart in Canada to launch Walmart...
Careem, the Dubai-based ride-hailing company with operations in over 100 cities across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia has acquired the food delivery platform MUNCH:ON for an undisclosed sum. Since January 2020, Careem has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber after being acquired for...
In even the best of labor markets, food delivery has never been the most solid business where margins are concerned. Now, as demand for off-premises meals remains elevated post-2020, and as restaurants and delivery services have difficulty finding driver labor, it is even trickier (and...
For eCommerce, call it a photo finish. Or: proof positive in the fight against friendly fraud, or more specifically first-party misuse. FedEx said on Wednesday (June 22) that it is launching its “Picture Proof of Delivery” for express and ground residential deliveries in the U.S....
