Amazon To Shut Down Its Amazon Restaurants Business

According to GeekWire, Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. The service, which was first launched in Seattle back in 2015, gave Prime members a way to get meals delivered to their door, using the dedicated website or via the Prime Now shopping app. From the report: Amazon ended the program in London this past November and will say goodbye to its U.S. service later this month. "As of June 24th, we will discontinue the Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S.," an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement shared with GeekWire. "Many of the small number of employees affected by this decision have already found new roles at Amazon, and others will be provided personalized support to find a new role within, or outside of, the company."

Amazon will also shut down Daily Dish, a workplace lunch delivery service that launched in 2016, on June 14. This move comes less than a month after Amazon led a $575 million funding round for Deliveroo, a U.K.-based food delivery company. It's unclear what, if any, moves are left in Amazon's restaurant delivery arsenal. The company still delivers groceries from Whole Foods via Prime Now in nearly 100 U.S. markets. The competition is fierce in the food delivery market, with companies such as Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash seeing big growth in recent years. Those three companies combined hold more than 75 percent of the U.S. food delivery market share.

Damn Now I have to

[goombah99]

go to FedEx for lunch.

Next I'll probably have to go to Facebook to get my oil changed, and over to Google to arrange for a Nanny. Good thing my job Uber provides these as benefits. I'm looking forward to my brother's prison work-release to Walmart.

Wasn't there some SciFi novels about cradle to grave corporate benefits would be our new way of living? can't recall.

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Next I'll probably have to go to Facebook to get my oil changed, and over to Google to arrange for a Nanny.

That Google one actually works, at least for the first step ;)

Better to buy than build

[ShanghaiBill]

There are many companies competing in the food delivery business. There is little to differentiate them, so they compete mainly on price. This leads to a zero-profit competition as they suck each other dry. Amazon can wait until there is only one company left standing, and then swoop in and acquire it.

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[rtb61]

I avoid food delivery services because it is purely logical to do so. Why get food from a person who has no association with the persons creating the food. The quality of the food delivered then becomes disconnected from the people actually creating the food. You are asking for trouble in one form https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]. Good luck, you probably getting some extreme biological flavouring with that meal. This does not even touch purposeful contamination.

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I avoid food delivery services because it is purely logical to do so. Why get food from a person who has no association with the persons creating the food. The quality of the food delivered then becomes disconnected from the people actually creating the food. You are asking for trouble in one form https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]. Good luck, you probably getting some extreme biological flavouring with that meal. This does not even touch purposeful contamination.

Yep, agreed.

Somewhat related, I would pay my local grocery stores for delivery if they would actually do it with their own employees. But they won't, they all use an uber-like service. No thanks ...

Giggity giggity

[fluffernutter]

Wow, the food delivery service is so bad Amazon won't even touch it. Lovely, this gig economy.

DoorDash?

[Bootsy Collins]

Geez, who gives them any business? They started out OK, but went to total crap. I give them a try about once a year, hoping they've sorted things out since they have restaurants that no other delivery service nearby has. And every time, it's a joke. The food they deliver arrives messed up in transit, or multiple hours late, or simply never arrives at all -- every single time I've ordered from them.