Grubhub Unlocks New Sales Channels and Marketing Tools for Merchants

At Grubhub, we’re always exploring new ways to increase value for the 415,000+ merchants across our platform in more than 4,000 cities nationwide. We’ve recently introduced new features and refreshed our existing brands to create additional marketing channels for merchants that drive visibility and generate more sales for our restaurant partners. Adding Local Restaurants on …

Grubhub lays off 500 employees

Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Wonder completed its $650 million acquisition of Grubhub in January, ending Just Eat Takeaway’s nearly five-year ownership of the brand.   Since the acquisition, Wonder and Grubhub have been working to align their businesses to “achieve our ambitious mission of becoming the primary destination for mealtime,” Migdal said. Wonder originally said its acquisition of Grubhub supported its …

Amazon adds Grubhub restaurant delivery to platform

Dive Brief: Dive Insight: The additional benefit of ongoing Grubhub+ attached to Prime membership means over 175 million Amazon Prime subscribers have access to Grubhub’s premium membership benefits, while also adding a new channel for orders, which could help grow the delivery firm’s market share. As of March, Gruhbub held about 8% of the food delivery market share in …

Prime members just got free food delivery, but Amazon could get 18% of Grubhub

Amazon now offers restaurant food delivery under a new Grubhub collaboration, wedged in with the site’s half-billion or so other products. And as yet another perk to Prime-paying customers, they’ll also pay zero for deliveries through a free Grubhub+ membership. The move embeds Grubhub’s platform (an Amazon.com- and Amazon Shopping-friendly version of it, anyway) directly into the website and app, …

Amazon now offers Grubhub delivery on its website and app

The new feature is part of an expanding relationship between the two companies that also includes a free Grubhub+ subscription for Prime members. Customers can order food from Grubhub within the Amazon app. | Image courtesy of Grubhub Amazon shoppers can now order restaurant delivery from Grubhub without leaving the Amazon app.  The new feature …

Amazon launches food delivery partnership to take on Uber, DoorDash

If you ever find yourself reminiscing about the days of old, or perhaps even fantasizing about a simpler time, whereby you may have been an 18th century poet or a peasant tilling the farmlands of your feudal lord, pause a moment to consider the consequences.  Sure, it might sound romantic to write sonnets and stanzas …

Amazon wants to turn small shops into delivery partners

According to a new report from Axios, Amazon wants to partner with small businesses, such as bodegas and IT shops, so that they can become delivery partners. The company pays a small fee to small retailers for each package they deliver. With this program, Amazon wants to expand its last-mile delivery network and find new partners …

Grubhub and Amazon Extend One-Year Free Grubhub+ Offer for U.S. Prime Members

CHICAGO and SEATTLE, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Grubhub and Amazon today announced the extension for an additional year of their free one-year Grubhub+ offer for Amazon Prime members in the United States. Prime members who have already signed up for Grubhub+ since the one-year offer was introduced on July 6, 2022, can keep enjoying Grubhub+ and will now receive an additional 12 months for a total of …

Uber Eats expands voice order tracking with Amazon Alexa

Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Uber Eats has been expanding its use of new technologies within the past year to increase customer access, including via autonomous vehicles and partnerships with stadiums and airports. The Alexa integration was designed to offer convenience to consumers. Users can set how they want to receive updates and how many Alexa devices they want to activate …

Amazon Abandons Last-Mile Delivery Robot; Great News For Uber Eat Drivers

Last-mile delivery drivers (like ones working for Uber Eats) likely breathed a sigh of relief Thursday when they heard Amazon halted pilot tests of its six-wheeled robot “Scout” for home deliveries.  Bloomberg said Scout wouldn’t make any more deliveries as the experimental project to disrupt last-mile deliveries would be wound down due to slowing sales growth.  …