Ride-Sharing App Adds Food Delivery

Sidecar launches national Sidecar Delivery service, partnering with local retailers.

February 11, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO – This week, the ridesharing app Sidecar expanded its food delivery service nationwide, following a successful pilot program in San Francisco. Now users in any of the cities served by Sidecar — including Washington, D.C., Boston and Chicago — can request delivery of food items with (or without) their ride.

Sidecar partners with any local store that doesn't have a delivery service of its own to sign up with Sidecar Deliveries. According to a company statement, Sidecar Delivery is 80% less expensive, and its items arrive to their destinations in half the time of more traditional methods.

While Sidecar isn't the first to get into the cheap and fast delivery industry, they hope that their unique vision will help them stand out from the competition: "Our vision is that one day any business will be able to take an order and get it to the customer in an hour, and Sidecar will be the service that powers this capability,"

Sidecar wrote in a blog post. "By offering delivery as a service, e-commerce companies are able to outsource the cost and logistics of delivery to us so they can focus on their business and customers," Sidecar wrote. "Our partners are already seeing the impact the combination of people and packages for delivery has on their business."

Online food-ordering company EAT24 is one of the first, and most impressive, partners to sign on to the program, with more in the works.

Some c-store retailers are taking delivery into their own hands, however. Happy Speedy in Boston offer a twist on fast by taking convenience directly to consumer’s doors.

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