DoorDash has teamed with The Home Depot to offer on-demand delivery for home improvement items. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Jan. 22), offers deliveries in as little as an hour and is open to both consumers and Home Depot’s pro customers. “Amidst a project and out of nails, screw heads or drill bits, on-demand delivery from DoorDash can save time and any added stress,” Mike Goldblatt, vice president of new verticals partnerships at DoorDash, said in a news release. “As we continue our mission to empower local economies, we’re incredibly proud to connect consumers to more retail stores in their communities with convenience and ease.”

DoorDash is launching a new pilot program in Georgia that will make some drivers eligible for benefits like health care and retirement.To be eligible to open a benefit account, drivers need to earn at least $1,000 in the first quarter of 2025.

Online delivery service DoorDash announced this week that it is launching home delivery of THC and. [+] CBD cannabis products including gummies and beverages. gettyGig economy delivery service DoorDash announced on Thursday that it would begin offering home delivery of cannabis products containing CBD and THC, the compound primarily associated with the classic marijuana “high.” The company will offer delivery of hemp-derived products including cannabis gummies, beverages and more, online cannabis news source Marijuana Moment reported on Thursday.“With the growing demand for hemp-derived THC and CBD products, we’re excited to expand access to a wide selection of products consumers crave,” Jacob Morello, director, general manager of alcohol and emerging categories at DoorDash, said in a statement from the company. “As preferences evolve, DoorDash can now help eligible customers find new products to safely enjoy while they unwind and recharge in the new year.”DoorDash is joining forces with companies including Total Wine & More, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits and others to deliver products such as THC and CBD gummies, beverages, chocolates, mints and honey sticks, the five most popular products during a pilot phase for the new product category. Products will also be available from DashMart, a DoorDash store and fulfillment platform offering delivery services for local businesses.“This expansion comes as a growing number of people seek new products to enjoy while they relax and decompress,’ the company noted. “According to a Harris Poll survey of U.S

Rewards platform Ibotta has launched a multiyear partnership with DoorDash. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Jan. 7), gives DoorDash customers access to Ibotta’s catalog of digital promotions on things like groceries, health and beauty items and home improvement products. A DoorDash news release said the partnership also gives consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands a chance to reach customers at the 115,000-plus stores on the company’s Marketplace

In a related move, DoorDash has partnered with The Trade Desk to connect the local commerce platform's data with The Trade Desk's programmatic technology to help advertisers deliver relevant, transparent and measurable campaigns.

DoorDash enters deal with Ibotta to expand digital promotions offering.

The CE 100 Index ended the last few days of 2024 and the first few days of the new year with a slight gain, adding 0.3%, while broader markets fell across the board.The Live Pillar pulled ahead by 2.3%, buoyed by iRobot, a volatile name that was up more than 24% through the week, though without any company-specific news, by Porch Group, which gained 7.5% and by Zillow, up 2.1%. The Eat segment was 2.2% higher; restaurant tech Olo advanced by 6.3% and DoorDash was 3.3% higher. Olo shares moved on the news, as reported by Yahoo Finance, that RBC Capital analyst Matthew Hedberg increased the sell-side firm’s price target on Olo to $9 from $8, while maintaining an “outperform” rating on the name. But the Work segment countered those gains, sliding 2.2%. Xerox gave up 9.6%, giving back some of the gains that had been seen after the company struck a deal to buy Lexmark for $1.5 billion

Epicery, a 9-year-old French food delivery startup, will not ring in 2025. A message posted to the company’s website informs visitors that Tuesday (Dec. 31) was its last day of operations, having made its final deliveries in France earlier this month. “The food delivery platform sector has gone through particularly difficult times in recent years, and we have not been spared,” the company said

Gift cards for a one-year subscription to Snapchat+ are now available online and in-store at select major retailers.This offering is enabled by a new partnership of messaging app Snapchat and global branded payments provider Blackhawk Network (BHN), BHN said in a Monday (Dec. 23) press release.“Gift cards for goods and services have long been a go-to gift, but as younger consumers look for alternative payment methods for their favorite subscriptions, we’ve seen an increase in interest in gift cards for other market segments, including subscriptions,” BHN Head of Global Commerce Brett Narlinger said in the release.Snapchat+ is the messaging app’s subscription tier that gives subscribers early and exclusive access to features, according to the release.The new Snapchat+ gift cards join the more than 1,000 gift card products offered by BHN, per the release.“Through this partnership, we’re not only able to expand the reach of the Snapchat+ subscription, but also able to provide another in-demand option for our distribution partners to continue to meet the needs of shoppers of all ages,” Narlinger said.Gift cards are the second most favored retail gift option during the holiday season, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence and i2c collaboration, “The Credit Economy: How Consumers Are Approaching Holiday Spending and Travel.”The November 2023 report found that over a third of shoppers intended to buy gift cards.In another, separate partnership, Blackhawk Network said Dec. 11 that it teamed up with quick delivery service Gopuff that lets shoppers add physical gift cards to their online grocery order for at-home delivery.“By partnering with BHN to add a variety of popular physical gift card options for delivery in as little as 15 minutes, Gopuff is making it even easier to give the perfect gift, even in a holiday pinch,” Narlinger said in a Dec. 11 press release.In October, BHN said it will make DoorDash gift cards available to consumers and businesses via more channels in the United States and Canada.This collaboration makes DoorDash gift cards and eGift options available on Giftcards.com and other stores and retailers, and in bulk to businesses via BHN’s software-as-a-service B2B gift card program

The world’s most populous country is also one of the most attractive for eCommerce investors. “It’s the tip of the spear of growth,” for that sector, EMQQ Global Founder Kevin Carter told CNBC in an interview Sunday (Dec. 22), “not just in emerging markets, but on the planet.”. Carter’s company, the report said, is behind the The India Internet ETF, which launched in 2022 and up almost 21% so far this year, as of the end of last week

After graduating, Aparimeya joined the door-to-door logistics and software development company DoorDash as a part of its new verticals organization's search experience team.