Deliveroo
This coverage examines Deliveroo’s role and developments within the UK retail and food delivery landscape, focusing on its partnerships, market strategy, and operational performance. Reporting highlights include collaborations with retailers, technology initiatives, leadership changes, financial results, and competitive positioning — offering retail professionals insights into its impact on customer behaviour and retail distribution channels.
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Jun- 2020 -25 JuneM&A
Amazon’s proposed stake in Deliveroo cleared by CMA
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared Amazon’s 16% investment in Deliveroo for the second time, on the basis that it is not likely to result in a “substantial lessening of competition”. In its initial provisional findings, published in April, the CMA provisionally cleared Amazon’s investment on the…
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25 JuneComment
Is it time retailers challenged digital transformation?
I think we have all heard enough about how quickly we have adapted to working from home, the constant play on words of “new normal”, “next normal”, “old normal” (whatever that means) and the “I told you so” smugness of digital transformation agencies (yes, I am from one of them!)…
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May- 2020 -28 MayComment
The time for retail to be re-imagined
2020 has seen retailers experience some of their most challenging times, an unprecedented fall or rise in demand during a global pandemic never before seen on this scale. As retailers grappled with their immediate response to Covid-19, it’s undoubtedly a once in a generation test of business continuity. As retailers…
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20 MayCoronavirus
Deliveroo expands partnership with Majestic Wines to 80 locations
Deliveroo and Majestic Wines has announced the expansion of its delivery partnership to cover 80 UK sites across the UK, alongside an expanded range on offer. Majestic Wines has unveiled a specially curated range of more than 50 wines, champagnes and spirits, available to order on the Deliveroo app. The…
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19 MaySupermarkets
Aldi trials grocery home delivery with Deliveroo
Aldi has announced it has teamed up with Deliveroo on trailing an on-demand grocery home delivery service in the UK. Aldi has started to offer a “rapid delivery” from its Daleside Road store in Nottingham, before extending the trial to a further seven stores across the East Midlands in June.…
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5 MayAdvice
Supermarket Peep: a glimpse at UK shopping behaviours in the now
As we sit in our make-shift offices, attempting to keep a work-life balance and ponder where we will go on our permitted once daily exercise, it’s hard to walk past the local parade of shops or high street and not wonder when or even if normality will ever be the…
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Apr- 2020 -23 AprilBusiness Bites
Scarves for face-masks will be part of the government’s post-pandemic advice
The government will advise the use of homemade facemasks once the pandemic measures are sufficiently relaxed for people to go back to work. As it tries to make sure that surgical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE) does not face supply issues for NHS workers, the government said scarves or ‘homemade cloth…
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8 AprilCoronavirus
Covid-19: Morrisons partners with Deliveroo
Morrisons has announced it is partnering with Deliveroo to enable customers to order essential household items from Morrisons stores for on-demand delivery. Both Morrisons and Deliveroo will “play their full part in feeding the nation” during the ongoing crisis by making 70 essential Morrisons items available to purchase on the…
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Dec- 2019 -19 DecemberBusiness Bites
Airbnb is the latest ‘big tech’ monolith to run rings around our outdated legal apparatus
It may seem tangential to those who do not work in real estate, but there is a court case on the continent with major implications for the future of many sectors, which reached a critical phase yesterday. It is the case of Airbnb vs the French tourism association, in which…
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Nov- 2019 -12 NovemberComment
Why hackers or malware are not the biggest security risk for retailers
Attackers are successfully pivoting away from complex technical exploits and instead are identifying ways to exploit a business’s core functionality. These business logic attacks exploit legitimate functions like username and password login or pages to add new credit cards and changes to shipping addresses. These new attacks are significantly harder…
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