Nearly a year after Grubhub first announced its partnership with Amazon to offer Prime members free yearlong Grubhub+ subscriptions, the aggregator shared Monday (June 5) that the two companies are extending the deal and stepping it up by offering two years — a testament to Grubhub’s commitment to its partnerships strategy. The aggregator announced in a news release that...
DoorDash will soon launch a five-week promotion of its membership program. The delivery aggregator’s fourth annual Summer of DashPass promotion will feature a different assortment of members-only discounts and other offers during each of the five weeks, beginning June 15, DoorDash said in a Tuesday (May 30) press release. “For...
Inflation, layoffs and hybrid work got you down? It might be your serotonin levels. Amid the flood of retail health and wellness clinics that have come to market during the pandemic era, there’s an entrepreneurial effort afoot to address this hormonal imbalance. The brainchild (no...
Netflix has begun its long-threatened crackdown on password sharing. The streaming service will begin sending an email Tuesday (May 23) to members who share Netflix outside their household in the U.S., reminding them that an account is for use by only one household, Netflix said...
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are finding new ways to take the need to make meals off consumers’ plates as they develop subscription models in direct challenge to meal kit providers. The direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscription model has seen volatility since high rates of inflation took hold across the United...
Consumers love their retail subscriptions, but inflation has forced a wave of cancellations, and merchants need to use every tool at their disposal — including making an emotional connection — to appeal to the far more judicious calculus of today’s subscribers. Those ideas grounded the...
Despite belt-tightening among consumers, retail subscriptions proved resilient in the first quarter and show no signs of weakening, offering proof points on the power of personalization and convenience when consumers decide where to spend. Not that the retail subscription sector isn’t under pressure. For example,...
As restaurants look to subscription commerce to drive loyalty, fast-casual salad and bowl chain Sweetgreen notes that the model is only effective if it can appeal to those who are not already highly loyal. In an interview with PYMNTS, Daniel Shlossman, the brand’s chief marketing officer,...
Food and beverage subscriptions see disproportionate churn relative to other industries as consumers rethink which recurring payments they really want or need and which they could do without. By the Numbers Research from PYMNTS’ April study, “Subscription Commerce Readiness Report: Bridging the Gap Between Subscription...
