Aggregator news and trends

DoorDash Grows Its Retail Presence by Hundreds of Thousands in Three Years
Earnings // February 15, 2024

As DoorDash looks to grow from a restaurant delivery platform to something more like a super app, the aggregator is expanding its retail offerings by orders of magnitude each year. On a call with analyst Thursday (Feb. 15) discussing the San Francisco-based delivery company’s fourth quarter...

10 Years and 5 Billion Orders Later, DoorDash Expands to More On-Demand Categories
Aggregators // June 28, 2023

In DoorDash’s decade of operation, the company has taken the restaurant aggregator business model and expanded it to so much more, shifting its goals from food delivery to providing everything on demand. The company’s recent Dash Forward virtual event showcased the aggregator’s shift from its origins,...

DoorDash Adds SNAP EBT Acceptance to Win Low-Income Shoppers’ Grocery Loyalty
eCommerce // June 27, 2023

In an effort to gain share of consumers’ grocery spending both from traditional brick-and-mortar grocers and from aggregator rivals such as Instacart, DoorDash is expanding its audience by adding the ability to pay via Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT). At Dash...

Instacart Adds Made-to-Order Features in Effort to Capture More Grocery Occasions
eCommerce // June 27, 2023

In its ongoing push to capture more of consumers’ grocery (and overall food) spending, Instacart is expanding its capabilities, most recently adding digital customization features for made-to-order items. The online grocery giant announced Tuesday (June 27) the launch of these personalization features via FoodStorm, the...

Quick Reads
Razor Group Acquires Perch, Consolidating Two Online Brand Aggregators

March 04, 2024
Razor Group has acquired Perch in a deal that consolidates two online brand aggregators. Following this acquisition, Razor Group now operates a catalog of 40,000 products across three continents, in more than 10 countries and 30 channels, “paving the way for a [$1 billion] top-line business,” Tushar Ahluwalia, co-founder and CEO of Razor Group, said in a […]

Grubhub Q2 Financials Soar On Digital Shift To Online Ordering

July 30, 2020
Lockdown living launched restaurant delivery aggregator Grubhub into a higher orbit, with the company logging gross food sales (GFS) of $2.3 billion in the second quarter of 2020, a 59...

PNC Blocks Venmo, Tells Users To Switch To Zelle

December 16, 2019
In financial services, access to data is, well, everything. Financial institutions, of course, use data to create new products and services to cement customer loyalty.  FinTechs can use data to...