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Week 26/8/2024

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🍕 Food Delivery

Nigeria’s food delivery industry whets investors’ appetite.

Sector forecast to double in value over eight years but soaring inflation will erode families’ spending power (Financial Times).

The gig economy is staying strong on US love of convenience.

Consumers are loath to give up hailing a ride or home deliveries (Financial Times).

Is There a Revenue Ceiling for Third-Party Delivery Providers?

DoorDash shared its second-quarter earnings performance last week and it was another boffo report, at least on the revenue side (Food on demand).

I guess many people wonder how food delivery platforms calculate customer estimated times of arrival, right?

Wolt released a paper where they explain how they do it (JJ Velaz).

Swiggy speeds up checkout with launch of Swiggy UPI.

Swiggy UPI allows users to complete UPI transactions directly within the Swiggy app (Business Today).

Meet ‘Turbo-first’, Rappi’s strategy to distance itself from iFood.

For a long time, the question for Rappi remained the same: how would the Colombian giant manage to turn the tables here in Brazil, and compete with the dominant brand in food delivery – in this case, iFood? (StartSe)

BAC Honduras joins PedidosYa Plus to benefit its customers (Iconos).

PedidosYa launches the ‘drop the trolley’ campaign.

The new campaign developed by GUT aims to change the habit of going out to do the shopping and to make visible that through the application you can order groceries in a matter of minutes, without leaving home, without queues and with the same discounts (Totalmedios).

Are Deliveroo going to pay riders to spy on restaurants and grocers?

Deliveroo published a new set of rider terms this week. According to their email riders will all be asked to accept these shortly (Rodeo).

Deliveroo riders readied to take photos of restaurant menus when collecting orders.

Deliveroo has made preparations to ask riders to run reconnaissance on the restaurants from which they collect orders, by taking phone snaps of in-store menus (The Grocer).

In-app advertising – Next frontier in digital marketing?

Advertising budgets often mirror shifts in consumer behavior, and with digital ad spending now outpacing traditional channels in the UAE, it’s clear that marketers are following consumers online (Stephan Soroka).

Pyszne.pl introduces drone deliveries in Poland. We’ve seen what it looks like.

The technology is ready, the laws around the world are adapting to it (Business Insider).

Food delivery platform Zomato eyes a new ‘District’ with third super brand.

In this regard, Zomato’s strategy differs greatly from that of its unlisted rival, Swiggy, who is trying to integrate all of its offerings under one ‘super app’ (Business Standard).

Zomato Shuts Intercity Food Delivery Service ‘Legends’ Due To ‘Lack Of Product-market Fit’.

The Legends facility had provided iconic dishes from 10 cities across the country (BW Disrupt).

Deliveroo, Uber Eats & Other Food Delivery Services Lack Meat Reduction Strategies

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The world’s top food delivery services are failing to implement strategies to reduce meat and dairy consumption, despite the climate emergency (GreenQueen).

Zimbabwean Uber Eats Riders Targeted By Hijackers In South Africa.

Zimbabwean Uber Eats delivery riders working in South Africa have formed an Anti-Hijacking Group in response to a worrying increase in armed robberies targeting their motorbikes (Pindula).

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The gig economy is staying strong on US love of convenience.

⚡Q-Commerce

Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation as India’s quick-commerce market heats up.

Indian instant delivery startup Zepto has finalized a $340 million round that values it at $5 billion, up from $3.6 billion in June and $1.4 billion last August, as the startup races to win market share in India’s contested quick-commerce market (Techcrunch).

Getir faces lawsuits over $4M in unpaid rent in NYC.

Delivery company allegedly left landlords high and dry after pulling out of U.S. market (Supermarket news).

Meituan launches 30-minute delivery services for home appliances in China in Midea deal.

The food delivery giant is tapping into China’s growing on-demand e-commerce market by offering a wider variety of products (SCMP).

Q-commerce set to disrupt Indian food delivery market.

Q-commerce’s promise of hyperlocal, speedy service is becoming a game-changer in the industry (RetailAsia).

🍏 Grocery Delivery

GrubMarket has acquired Good Eggs.

The online food and grocery delivery space is seeing more consolidation (Techcrunch).

How micro-segmentation is driving evolution in Korea’s online grocery market.

When Ian Wonshik Kwon’s wife shops for groceries online in Seoul, she uses no fewer than seven different platforms. Several years ago she used three (Inside FMCG).

efood: The debut of the efood local network – Which new supermarkets have “loaded” onto the platform.

The development plans of efood local – What Haris Takas says to OT – Competition is increasing in the e-commerce of direct delivery of supermarket items (OT).

Online grocery sales hit $7.9B in July as delivery powers ahead.

Pickup retained its top position in the grocery e-commerce space, but sales for the channel were flat even as delivery sales were up by more than a fifth, Brick Meets Click and Mercatus reported (Grocery dive).

Pyszne.pl joins forces with a chain of health food stores.

Pyszne.pl begins cooperation with Organic Market, the largest chain of healthy food stores in Poland (Property news).