Uber said it's closing Drizly's business and focusing on its core Uber Eats strategy.

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.”

  • sramder@lemmy.world
    518·
    10 months ago

    People that alread get drunk at home uninterested in paying more for booze. Who could have ever predicted this?

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      19·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think that’s as big of a problem as you’re acting like. For example, people who are already drunk or at least too drunk to drive are a great market to exploit with a delivery app. Hell, you can even tell yourself it’s a public service to keep them off the road, right?

      To me the bigger problems seem like legal liabilities from being so obviously easy to abuse by minors and the fact that no one seems to have heard of them.

      • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        the bigger problems seem like legal liabilities from being so obviously easy to abuse by minors

        You get carded for alcohol deliveries. It’s not any less secure than buying alcohol at a grocery store.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
          4·
          10 months ago

          Other than delivery services not doing background checks on drivers?

          But it’s still a fair point, as “contractors” the company could probably argue they don’t have any blame for failure to check to IDs.

          • Dran@lemmy.world
            7·
            10 months ago

            In my experience, it’s not a “show ID to the guy and he says okay” it’s “the guy is obligated to scan your ID into the doordash/Uber app to verify age”. They can’t opt to not check without getting dinged pretty heavily by Uber/doordash.

          • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Other than delivery services not doing background checks on drivers?

            Are you worried that minors will be delivering alcohol for these companies or having the company deliver the alcohol to them?

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        10 months ago

        and the fact that no one seems to have heard of them.

        this is it right here. Also, there’s a case to be made for large parties running out of booze. (poor neighbors.) but the reality is those circumstances just don’t make sense to build a business around. especially considering many liquor stores are getting in on the act.

    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      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.