Just Eat Takeaway.com announces intention to cease operations in France

Food delivery fees are rising, and everyone’s feeling the pinch.

Between the service fee, delivery fee and tip added up at checkout, the price of a meal on third-party delivery apps can be far higher than many consumers expect (CNBC).

Food Delivery Firm Offering Olympic Gold Medal Winners 1-Year Free Food.

Food delivery firm, Grab Malaysia is offering the national contingent competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics & Paralympics up to 1 million rewards points and a year’s worth of free food if they win any medals, in addition the firm is also giving every local athlete participating an additional 50,000 reward points (Business Today).

Seven Graphs Illustrating The Growth Of Saudi Arabia’s Food Delivery Industry.

While meal delivery currently dominates the market, grocery delivery is rapidly gaining momentum, indicative of shifting consumer preferences and the emergence of innovative service options (Entrepreneur).

Magicpin to invest Rs 100 cr to onboard new food delivery partners on ONDC.

Magicpin will invest funds towards offering onboarding incentives like zero commission, zero onboarding fees, and free home delivery (Business Standard).

To ease food delivery, Marina Bay Financial Centre to extend grace period for motorcycle parking to 20 min. Ten more minutes.

Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) will extend the grace period for motorcycle parking in its carpark from 10 to 20 minutes, starting from July 30 (Stomp).

Delivery app, eatery fined for serving non-veg food to veg consumer.

The district consumer disputes redressal forum fined a food delivery app and a restaurant for mixing up orders and delivering a non-vegetarian dish to a woman who ordered a vegetarian dish (Hindustan Times).

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash can continue to classify drivers as contractors in California.

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Proposition 22 — the ballot measure that passed in November 2020 and classified app-based gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees — is here to stay (Techcrunch).

Exclusive | Amazon in deal talks with Swiggy for quick commerce business.

Early talks on; US ecommerce biggie looking for a buyout or stake via pre-IPO placement (Retail).

Just Eat Takeaway.com announces intention to cease operations in France.

Just Eat Takeaway.com has made the difficult decision to propose the closure of all operations in France, subject to consultation (Just Eat Takeaway).

Food delivery giant iFood to enter the payments market war.

Food delivery platform iFood is launching a bank for its 350,000 restaurants to expand

financial solutions for the dining industry (The Brazilian Report).

Careem takes on global tech players this week – launches rapid delivery of electronics at unbeatable prices.

Phones, laptops, tablets, gaming accessories, and more, now available for delivery in under 60 minutes via Careem’s ‘Quik Electronics’ (Zawya).

“Free delivery brings disloyal customers,” ChopNowNow founder muses as he pivots to grocery delivery.

About seven out of ten new businesses fail in the first five years, but ChowNowNow, a food delivery service in Lagos, made it to year six before it threw in the towel (Techcabal).