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Jüsto snags extra US$5M to scale grocery deliveries in Latin America

Contxto – Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many households in Mexico bought their groceries online for the first time. An...

October 2, 2020

iFood acquires SiteMercado as e-grocery competition intensifies

Contxto – Delivery de Mercado—iFood’s marketplace of restaurants and supermarkets—grew 240 percent last August when compared to March of this...

September 18, 2020

PedidosYa is scaling its delivery-only grocery stores

Contxto – Uruguayan-founded, German-owned PedidosYa is upping its ante in the Dominican Republic. The startup recently announced the launch of...

September 8, 2020

Dark groceries see the future as Zipp raises US$636,000 to sustain growing operations

Contxto – Dark store grocery startup Zipp wrapped up an investment for R$3.5 million (~US$636,000). It doesn’t come as a...

August 19, 2020

Cornershop forges partnership with Emptor to automate background checks

Contxto – As Chilean-Mexican Cornershop looks to scale throughout Latin America, it needs help carrying out background checks for its...

August 3, 2020

Instacart in lawsuit against delivery startup Cornershop

Contxto – Grocery delivery drama coming your way.  News recently broke that San Fran’s Instacart filed a lawsuit against Chilean-Mexican,...

July 24, 2020

Hugo pilots drone deliveries and launches delivery-only grocery store

Contxto – Salvadoran Hugo has been very busy throughout 2020. Last we wrote about the delivery startup, it closed its...

July 15, 2020

Cornershop’s latest partnership just sweetened the deal for Uber

Contxto – Retailers cannot deny that home deliveries are of the utmost need with self-isolation. And in Mexico, one major...

July 3, 2020