Assignment Overview
Food on Demand
Food delivery companies (e.g., Grubhub, Instacart, Doordash, etc.) have grown significantly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic yet have failed to show profits. The assignment is to analyze these types of sharing services using the concepts in the article: “Reasons for Failures of Sharing Economic Businesses” (in the attached files). Use at least three of the “reasons for failure” in your analysis and the content from the assigned WSJ content and case (food on demand: Instacart and grub). This content can be accessed by the two links below.
Restaurants and Startups Try to Outrun Uber Eats and DoorDash
https://www.wsj.com/articles/restaurants-and-startups-try-to-outrun-uber-eats-and-doordash-11613903401?st=i1i8kq2li1btayo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
With food-delivery apps like Uber Eats, who’s actually making money?
https://youtu.be/x5CGId9pOD0
Requirements
Your write-up should be 2-3 pages double spaced.
Use at least three of the reasons for failure in your write-up (as seen below).
Lack of Platform Providers
- Insufficient Analysis of the Sharing Market
- Trust and Safety concerns
- Hidden resource requirement
- Unscalable technical Design
- Unclear legal environment
- Business Termination through Acquisitioning
Format your write-up with a “header” for each of the reasons you use. Use the information from the assigned content to support your analysis. You can also use additional information sources and draw on any of your experiences using these types of services. Your analysis should include a beginning paragraph (introduction to the purpose of your report) and a concluding paragraph with summarizes your analysis.
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