Uber Eats Postmates

Uber claims more ground in conquering pandemic food delivery: the company finally acquired the Postmates because grocery delivery service, in Uber’s masterful double talk, “the combination of platforms provides more choice. They actually said that. Postmates will keep its logo and app, but will merge its delivery network with Uber.

And, Christ – Uber is also announcing that it is taking place on a national stage.listening tower“, So that restaurants and traders can” give their opinion “. The announcement conveniently comes after he won a legislative push for permanently deprive his Conductors fair wages and bargaining rights in its home state, California.

Uber and Postmates announced the agreement a few months after the start of the pandemic, while Eats looked like the strongest leg in Ubers’ operation. Although Uber remains unprofitable, some analysts hope that the deal, which is fully in stock, will change that. With Postmates customers, Uber Eats may get ahead in Los Angeles and Miami, and be a short distance from DoorDash in Phoenix, some say metric. Uber already extended to grocery delivery to select cities in July, starting with acquisition of the Cornershop grocery delivery start-up.

Throughout the pandemic, delivery services have strived to become providers of all needs the same day. Doordash expanded to grocery store in August, Instacart pushed towards non-food products (a Sephora partnership), Amazon added another grocery chain from its Whole Foods empire (Amazon Fresh.) Kroger tested ghost kitchens for a partnership with the ClusterTruck delivery service. Ironically, Uber founder Travis Kalanick’s new venture, CloudKitchens, which he launched in 2017, has been largely absent during the pandemic, aside from a few headlines about a suspect. arson at its seat.

Postmates are just one part of Uber’s grand ambition for Amazon-wide dominance. In his 2019 Annual Report, it lists among its competitors not only GrubHub and Deliveroo, but also logistics companies: Uber’s freight service competes with international transport companies like DHL, and its planned autonomous vehicles will compete with Tesla and Waymo. Why make money when the goal is too big to fail.