Uber and Albertsons Companies are expanding their partnership to include more stores on Uber Eats, and will now be including 2,000 of the grocer’s stores, according to a Tuesday (May 3) press release from Uber. Several of Albertsons Companies’ brands, including Albertsons, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, ACME,...
While lockdowns and social distancing measures supercharged the food delivery aggregator space, the return to lives away from home is now revealing cracks in the model. Global food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com saw its stock fall 70% in 2021, according to a report Sunday...
Paint company Kelly-Moore is working with Walmart GoLocal to offer same- and next-day delivery to painting contractors, renovators and B2B clients. The company announced the program in a news release Thursday (April 28), saying it would involve Kelly-Moore stores across California, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas,...
Consumers are choosing experiences over goods when spending money, UPS executives report. The company has heard from its customers that there has been some shift in consumer spending from goods to services, they said Tuesday (April 26) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. “You’re probably...
Didi Global is shuttering its food delivery service in Japan on May 25 as it also moves to delist from the New York Stock Exchange, according to reports. “Unfortunately, due to local market conditions, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue DiDi Food in...
Kroger is taking its digital delivery business into its own hands. The grocery giant announced Wednesday (April 20) that it is hiring more than 200 new employees to gear up for the launch of Kroger Delivery in South Florida. The company is looking not only...
Ryde, a U.K. company that provides clients with platforms to create their own driver networks as well as access to its own pool of drivers, is launching an optional shift-based payment model for drivers. The company launched Houly+ following several weeks of trials to “increase...
It would appear that Just Eat Takeaway’s Grubhub bet is not paying off. In a trading update Wednesday (April 20), the Netherlands-based company announced that it is “actively exploring” the possibility of a partial or full sale of the Chicago, Illinois-based aggregator or bringing in...
Just Eat Takeaway (JET) could offload Grubhub for real this time as the public’s taste for home-delivered meals continues to wane post-pandemic and high inflation squeezes budgets, according to a trading statement on Wednesday (April 20). The first three months of this year saw orders...
