article on CBS San Francisco, UBER
announced that it is acquiring alcohol delivery startup Drizly for $1.1 billion in stock and cash. The deal, will result in Drizly being integrated into Uber’s food delivery app while also remaining a standalone app. Drizly was founded in 2012, inspired by what the company’s site describes as a “simple text” between two friends: “Why can’t you get alcohol delivered?” It now partners with thousands of retailers in more than 1,400 US cities to sell alcohol through its platform to be delivered in under an hour. “Wherever you want to go and whatever you need to get, our goal at Uber is to make people’s lives a little bit easier. That’s why we’ve been branching into new categories like groceries, prescriptions and now, alcohol,” said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in a statement.” Active Cannabis companies in the markets this week include
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PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UBER was invented to deliver people from A to B . Now it s future is delivering alcohol. Recently, according to an article on CBS San Francisco, UBER announced that it is acquiring alcohol delivery startup Drizly for $1.1 billion in stock and cash. The deal, will result in Drizly being integrated into Uber s food delivery app while also remaining a standalone app. Drizly was founded in 2012, inspired by what the company s site describes as a simple text between two friends: Why can t you get alcohol delivered? It now partners with thousands of retailers in more than 1,400 US cities to sell alcohol through its platform to be delivered in under an hour. Wherever you want to go and whatever you need to get, our goal at Uber is to make people s lives a little bit easier. That s why we ve been branching into new cat