Back in 2021, Uber purchased Drizly for $1.1 billion shortly after it reported that its food delivery segment kept its losses manageable during the pandemic. Three years later, the company is shutting down the US-based alcohol delivery service, Axios has reported. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Uber’s SVP of delivery, told the publication that the company has decided to close the business and to focus on its “core Uber Eats strategy.”
People that alread get drunk at home uninterested in paying more for booze. Who could have ever predicted this?
I’d 100% use this as would just of my friends, if state laws didn’t prevent it.
This is almost certainly a legal issue vs demand.
You say that now, but would you really pay $27 for a six-pack?