Around the world, in the competitive food delivery category, the win condition is shifting. Where in 2020 and 2021, the goal was to capture the largest market share, now the stakes are rising. On a call with analysts Wednesday (Jan. 12) discussing its fourth-quarter 2021...
Square has launched delivery for Square Online orders in Canada through DoorDash Drive, DoorDash’s white-label fulfillment platform, making Canada the first international market to offer on-demand delivery after the service launched in the U.S. in 2020, according to a Wednesday (Jan. 12) press release. Restaurants,...
With food being a multiple-times-a-day necessity for consumers, fulfilling this need allows apps to embed themselves deeply in their users’ daily routines. Food delivery services, bringing meals to consumers’ doors with the speed and convenience they increasingly expect, have the opportunity to quickly become indispensable....
Food delivery platform Delivery Hero is expecting to break even during the second half of this year and become profitable next year, according to a company blog post Monday (Jan. 10). “Delivery Hero has always been investing in growth initiatives, with the clear ambition of...
Convenience store 7-Eleven is trialing 20-minute deliveries by drone on Nokonoshima Island in Fukuoka City in Japan as part of Tokyo’s Project for Building Business Models for Logistics Services Using Drones in Tokyo, DroneLife reported. ANA Holdings, Japan’s major airline consortium and the group behind...
eCommerce-as-a-Service platform Cart.com on Monday (Jan. 10) acquired direct-to-consumer (D2C) tech-focused fulfillment and customer care platform FB Flurry. This partnership will give Cart.com increased marketing services, fast-growing fulfillment, customer service and operational capabilities. FB Flurry distributes more than 35 million product units each year from...
The connected economy is a hyper-competitive battlefield — no matter where you look. In some countries and regions where super apps are gaining ground, some strategic re-positioning by platform giants gives an indication of just how competitive things are getting. To that end, March 7...
German food delivery giant Delivery Hero has sold a $150 million share of its ownership in Latin American delivery company Rappi, representing most of the investment it had made in the company, Reuters reported Monday (Jan. 10). Delivery Hero is retaining about 8% of Rappi,...
Bodegas in New York City staged a rally with the Save Mom-and-Pop Business Coalition to get the attention of local elected officials regarding ultra-fast delivery operations and the toll they’re taking on long-established neighborhood businesses, according to media reports. Aside from the app-based competition, immigrant,...
