Uber in talks to sell UberEats’ India business to Zomato

[jmsflknr]

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/15/ubereats-india-zomato/

[batiudrami]

I'm surprised Zomato isn't circling the drain. They killed the only reliable and popular restaurant review website in my city when they bought Urbanspoon [1]. Now all we have is Google Maps where everything has five hundred reviews and 4.3 star average because they use Google Opinion Rewards to populate it.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AU-WA&...

[sdnlafkjh34rw → batiudrami]

I believe they are doing well in India. It's the main review site there.

[hiyer → sdnlafkjh34rw]

Reviews and listings seem to be taking a backseat now in India as well. A couple of years back you could expect to see a new restaurant listed and its menu posted within a couple of days of opening. Now it often takes months.

[p1necone → sdnlafkjh34rw]

They also seem to be the main one in Auckland, New Zealand

[sbmthakur]

Never used Uber Eats. It seems that Swiggy and Zomato have been largely successful in retaining their users.

[jatins]

Definitely bad for consumers in the long run to have less competition.

But Uber just never seemed to invest in Eats. The app was slow and dated, and basic things like adding an address required whole lot of gymnastics.

Not to mention it was available in far fewer cities than Swiggy/Zomato

[sytelus]

Uber will stand in history as another example where investors took over the founder and tried to squeeze out all profits as soon as they possibly can while squashing away all extravagant outrageous ambitions. Uber used to be the flagbearer of the logistics revolution in the world, now reduced to operational excellence for a mere cab-hailing app for the sole purpose of maximizing shareholder value.

[konschubert → sytelus]

Uber was always a mediocre business. It’s becoming visible now, but that’s a matter of time, not the fault of the CEO.

[ishan001]

Oh, that sucks. I am going to miss the huge discounts it offers over its competitors.

[godzillabrennus → ishan001]

I agree. It’s sad that SoftBank isn’t interested in subsidizing our lives anymore.