The Chinese platform announced that it will start providing food delivery services from restaurants, an option that will initially be offered to customers located in the Greater Metropolitan Area.
The company will compete in the Costa Rican market with the DiDi Food brand, an application that is currently in the affiliation phase for restaurants and delivery companies interested in collaborating with the platform.
Get My Food, a digital platform of Salvadoran origin dedicated to providing home delivery services, announced that it will start operations in 10 new areas that are distributed in three countries in the region.
Company executives informed that in the new expansion stage they will start offering their services in Lourdes, San Miguel, Santa Ana, Soyapango and Ilopango, in El Salvador.
PedidosYa, a digital platform for home delivery of different types of products, began operating in the local market and will initially cover customers in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador.
The platform that began to compete days ago, offers the delivery service of products that are classified in the categories of restaurants, markets, beverages, stores and errands.
During the last year, the revenues of delivery platforms have grown considerably in El Salvador, a phenomenon that has increased competition and forces companies to innovate in order to attract new customers and retain existing ones.
Due to the restrictions imposed by the covid-19 outbreak, the change in shopping habits and the preference of many people to avoid going to commercial establishments, mobile platforms dedicated to home delivery have exponentially increased their operations and sales.
Although dealing with a demanding and challenging market with several competitors, companies dedicated to the transportation of people and delivery still visualize multiple opportunities in Costa Rica.
The need to access more efficient mobility, changes in consumption patterns and the upward trend in the introduction of smartphones and the Internet, have created a business scenario in which the demand for mobile platform services dedicated to the transportation of people and home delivery, increases over the years.
Arguing that the decision is due to the commitment of the search of the profitability, from November 8 the Spanish company of transport by application will stop offering its services in Santo Domingo and Panama City.
As a result of a constant process of analysis of the markets in which it operates, the company has made the strategic decision to stop its service in both capitals, the company said in a statement.
With the boom in demand for food delivery, Costa Rican restaurant owners claim that their companies have given up part of the profits to assume the costs of making alliances with delivery applications.
Since last March, when the first cases of covid-19 were reported in Costa Rica, consumers have been subjected to severe restrictions on mobility, which has led to transformations in the forms of marketing.
In this scenario of changing habits, the company Uber announced that in the Panamanian market it will make available to its customers a new service of sending articles, which will be called Uber Flash.
For more than three months, when the first cases of covid-19 were reported in Panama, the population has been subjected to strict quarantine, which has forced companies to diversify their services.
Hugo App, a platform for home delivery services, is one of the companies that accelerated its growth due to the mobility restrictions that have been decreed in the countries of the region because of the health crisis.
In order to contain the spread of covid-19, governments in Central America have decreed mandatory quarantines and restricted the movement of consumers at certain times. Faced with this new commercial reality, companies dedicated to home delivery of products have increased their income considerably.
Because of the restrictions on movement decreed in Central American countries, orders in applications dedicated to home delivery have increased considerably.
The services of electronic delivery platforms such as Hugo and Uber Eats, among others, are among the few sectors that will be able to circulate in El Salvador after Nayib Bukele announced on March 21 the home quarantine, which will last 30 days.
In a few days the company DiDi will start operating in the country, an application dedicated to the transport of people and which is already recruiting driving partners.
Next month it will begin operating in the 10, 14 and 4 zones of the capital, an application that will allow its customers to rent electric scooters.
The application by means of which the electric scooters or scooters can be rented is called Bird, and the project that will start with 100 units will be available to the public from December 2019.
The mobile App, which at the beginning was used for home delivery of products, announced that since November 15 it has been carrying out tests to offer the passenger transport service in the capital of the country.
The company plans to compete in the passenger transport market in San Salvador, but in the future, it plans to expand to other cities where Hugo App already has a presence.
DiDi, an application dedicated to the transportation of people, began operating in the country on November 19, offering its services in San José, Cartago, Alajuela, Heredia and Puntarenas.
At the moment, the Chinese mobile application plans to offer in the country the basic passenger transport service, however, the future plans are to provide premium care, which will include higher capacity cars and special vehicles for people with physical disabilities.
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