Amazon.com Inc. and British food delivery startup Deliveroo make in some ways cosier bedfellows than Uber Technologies Inc. does with its own competing service, Uber Eats. It shuttered the London operations of Amazon Restaurants last year amid a fierce price war with Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat Plc. But there’s merit in maintaining a presence in app-based food delivery services. The key difference between Amazon/Deliveroo and Uber/Uber Eats is that, on the whole, the people who deliver food for Uber Eats are not the same as the ones who ferry customers around for Uber. There’s plenty of skepticism, not least from me, about how profitable food delivery can really be, and whether it can sustain its growth.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2019 10:52 UTC