The instant grocery delivery market is headed toward consolidation: The extremely high cost of 15-minute delivery in the US has startups built on the promise pivoting to longer delivery times and other services.

Food services and drinking place sales (i.e., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments, such as bill pay, taxes or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales. COVID-19 Forecast Scenarios.

., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments such as bill pay, taxes or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales. UK Retail and Ecommerce Sales. The pandemic has altered our retail forecasts substantially. Though retail sales will decline, ecommerce will see a significant bounce.

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Super apps in Asia, such as WeChat, Alipay, and mobile messaging app Line, have dominated ecommerce and online services in the region for years. Now, some Western apps are trying to build their own super apps by creating marketplaces next to their core financial, social, or delivery services. Most of these apps use a combination of monetization methods, including commissions and ad serving.

Many mobile app categories saw a boost last year as more consumers spent time with their devices during quarantines. According to our estimates for smartphone app user growth, grocery apps, food delivery apps, and health/fitness apps were the three fastest-growing categories in 2020.

., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments, such as bill pay, taxes or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales. An Overview of China’s Retail Forecast. Amid the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s retail market is expected to decline for the first time on record (dating to at least 1985).

Pizza Hut looks outside of the box: The fast-food chain seeks to regain leadership in digital food delivery through AI and analytics.

., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments, such as bill pay, taxes or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales. COVID-19 Forecast Scenarios. Given the extreme uncertainty around the pandemic, we have developed three scenarios to assess the possible effects of COVID-19 on the retail industry over the next two years.

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That’s precisely what restaurants and other merchants have been trying to do throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. People who had never ordered delivery before through an app, and restaurants that had never participated in delivery, now want to be part of it. We’ve done lots of foundational research on how restaurants think about driving new demand.

Therefore, issuers might be interested in offering cards geared toward high growth sectors like online grocery and food delivery because it’d let them diversify their offerings—which may help offset travel card losses from 2020 and revitalize cobrand credit card volume.

On March 17, the communities secretary announced that planning rules in the UK would be relaxed so that pubs and restaurants could operate as hot food takeaways. But despite the expected surge in mobile ordering and delivery services, March 2020 data from RetailX and Internet Retailing indicated that ordering takeaway food may not be at the top of UK shoppers’ priority lists.

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Delivery Services Are Starting to Morph into Retail Super Apps. In the US, delivery apps have expanded beyond grocery and restaurants by partnering with retailers and investing in their own inventory. For example, Instacart has partnerships to deliver products from the likes of Dick's Sporting Goods, Best Buy, and Staples.

., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments such as bill pay, taxes or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales. COVID-19 Forecast Scenarios. Given the extreme uncertainty around the pandemic, we have developed three scenarios to assess the possible impact of COVID-19 on Latin America’s retail industry over the next two years.

Lunch and dinner subscription company MealPal started out as a service through which consumers could pick up meals from local restaurants during the work week—but, like many in the food industry, it has adjusted its operations for quarantined customers. The company now offers groceries supplied by local restaurants via MealPal Market.

Article: Companies ignore the obvious cracks in the rapid delivery model.

Frictionless commerce, a trend permeating many facets of the customer journey today, leverages technology to improve the retail experience by saving people time and hassle. And arguably the most competitive battleground in frictionless commerce is in fast and free ecommerce delivery.

“Another [restaurant] continued, but we restructured to highlight their delivery and pick-up options.”. Business closures and event cancellations have also been a hindrance to more than one in five influencers who responded to the Mavrck survey.

In less than two weeks' time, the coronavirus pandemic completely changed the ways in which millions of UK residents grocery shop and order food. On March 20, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered cafes, bars and restaurants to close for eat-in customers; three days later, all residents except workers in essential jobs were told to stay home as much as possible, going out only for groceries, medical needs or solo exercise.

Delivery drones take flight