NRS, Grubhub partner to deliver small business retail services

National Retail Solutions is teaming up with Grubhub to bring digital ordering and delivery capabilities to independent merchants nationwide. As part of a newly announced collaboration, small businesses supported by the Newark-based point-of-sale platform can now offer their customers remote ordering for delivery or in-store pick-up via the Grubhub app. According to NRS, key features of integrating with Grubhub …

Instacart Gives Grubhub a Boost in Grocery Delivery

Grubhub is teaming up with Instacart to bring a massive grocery catalog to its app and website. The move gives Grubhub a big boost in grocery selection. Instacart works with more than 1,800 national, regional, and local grocers across North America. Grubhub customers can now order groceries through Instacart directly in the app, with Instacart …

DoorDash is zeroing in on this ‘overlooked’ retail segment

While it’s hard to avoid shopping at national chains for at least some groceries, consumers also ride hard for their local and regional grocers (any fellow New England Market Basket fans in the house?). Fuad Hannon, VP of new verticals at DoorDash, believes this retail segment has been “overlooked” by other delivery platforms, while for …

How DoorDash is Growing by Advancing its ‘Local Commerce’ Mission

When DoorDash launched in 2013, it was all about restaurant delivery. Now, in addition to dinner from the local taco joint, you can order garden mulch from Lowe’s, mascara from Sephora and tequila for some margaritas to spice up Taco Tuesday, all in the same app. In fact, DoorDash’s reach has expanded so much in the past decade …

Gopuff promises ‘fastest delivery on the planet’ of groceries — and NYC pols vow crackdown

Fast delivery grocery app Gopuff introduced a 20-minute delivery promise – and Big Apple pols just as quickly vowed to push back because of safety concerns, The Post has learned The Philadelphia-based company rolled out a new service for subscribers Tuesday that “promises delivery in under 20 minutes for just $1.49/order,” in what it described …

Instacart, DoorDash and Uber up their grocery ante

Uber’s grocery and retail vertical generated $7 billion in annualized gross bookings in its fourth quarter, while Ahold Delhaize’s U.S. banners are linking with DoorDash. Third-party e-commerce players are bolstering their grocery game this year by expanding food retailer partnerships, and they are seeing sales booms from their grocery investments.  Instacart announced Wednesday that Whole Foods …

ReserveBar Enters into a Strategic Technology Partnership with delivery.com

ReserveBar, the leading e-commerce platform for premium and luxury beverage alcohol, has entered into a strategic technology partnership with delivery.com, a pioneer in the restaurant delivery segment. Utilizing its cutting-edge technology enablement and nationwide fulfillment network, ReserveBar will significantly expand the beverage alcohol product offerings and the retailers available to delivery.com customers, enabling consumers on delivery.com …

DoorDash adds products and services UberEats doesn’t have

For those of us who refuse to leave our hovels but for once every blue moon or so, meal delivery has been a major enhancement to our existence.  Everyone from Kylie Jenner to your reclusive neighbor who apparently hasn’t left his house in months makes use of the helpful invention. And whether it’s because you’re …

Why Uber decided to sunset Drizly

Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly, roughly three years after acquiring it for $1.1 billion. On January 15, Uber announced that it would shut down Drizly by March. The news comes almost exactly three years after the big acquisition, which took place months after Uber’s $2.65 billion acquisition of competitor Postmates. “After three …

Report: Uber to Close Drizly E-Commerce Alcohol Delivery Platform

Uber has decided to shut down Drizly just three years after acquiring the alcohol e-commerce delivery platform for $1.1 billion, Axios reported today. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Uber’s SVP of delivery, in a statement to Axios, said the company has decided to close Drizly in order to focus on its “core UberEats strategy of helping consumers get almost …