Uber shuts down Drizly, America’s pandemic-era booze delivery hero – By Tim Carman (The Washington Post) / Jan 16, 2024
The service that kept countless Americans stocked up on beer, wine and booze during the pandemic will deliver its last bottle this spring. Uber confirmed Tuesday that it will shut down Drizly, the alcohol-delivery service it acquired in 2021, at the end of March.
“After three years of Drizly operating independently within the Uber family, we’ve decided to close the business and focus on our core Uber Eats strategy of helping consumers get almost anything – from food to groceries to alcohol – all on a single app,” Pierre Dimitri Gore-Coty, senior vice president of delivery, said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Uber stock was up slightly Tuesday after news of Drizly’s closure started to make its way around the internet.
The decision to shutter Drizly is apparently based on business redundancies and convenience. Consumers, an Uber spokeswoman noted, prefer to use a single app when ordering deliveries, and the alcohol category on Uber Eats had already doubled globally in the last year. The Uber Eats app has the ability to deliver alcohol to 35 states and more than 25 countries around the world, she said.
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