Uber Eats is expanding its grocery offerings in the West Coast, adding new use cases and embedding its service deeper into consumers’ daily routines. Uber announced in a Tuesday (Jan. 25) press release that it has added 173 new grocery stores to its marketplace across...
Starting Monday (Jan. 24), third-party food delivery apps will have to be licensed to operate in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Peter A. Hatch said in a press release on Sunday (Jan. 23). The new...
German rapid grocery startup Gorillas is working on a deal to acquire the French delivery firm Frichti for undisclosed terms, Bloomberg reported on Monday (Jan. 24). The combined entity would grow its footprint in the competitive food delivery space and give it the second-largest market...
Norway residents will soon have other ways of getting their meals delivered. Delivery Hero, one of the biggest online food delivery companies in Europe, has been remanded for its exclusivity agreements, Forbes reported. The Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA), the government agency responsible for ensuring competition,...
Global identity verification provider Veriff is partnering with autonomous delivery services provider Starship Technologies to offer identity verification services for autonomous robot delivery, according to a press release on Thursday (Jan. 20). Starship Technologies was founded in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus...
If margins in the grocery industry are low, and margins for grocery delivery are unforgiving, then companies that deliver within minutes are essentially walking a tightrope — if it were not for venture capital funding, ultrafast delivery might not be possible. On Tuesday (Jan. 18),...
Grocery delivery platform Gopuff has unveiled “Basically,” its first private label, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 18) press release. The “Basically,” line will start with bottled water before moving onto essentials, such as cleaning products, batteries, paper products, cutlery and food storage, the release stated....
With its latest initiative, Instacart is firing back at the leading restaurant aggregators, such as DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, which have been moving further into the grocery delivery space. Now, Instacart is retaliating, selling hot food. The online grocery platform announced Thursday (Jan. 13)...
With the door-to-door sales model proving questionable at best amid widespread contagion concerns, Girl Scouts are once again taking a hybrid approach to cookie sales — this time with a new digital ordering partner. On Tuesday (Jan. 11), food delivery service DoorDash announced that it...
