With over 7 million corona virus cases reported worldwide, the pandemic has modified our lifestyles and work modes completely and the situation is far from over as the number of patients are still increasing across the globe. All kinds of business sectors are adversely affected and are at their all-time lows due to the consequences of this novel corona virus. Although there is hardly anything which could save any business in these tough times, the on-demand ordering system has helped relevant businesses a lot to continue with their operations. Here are some of the on-demand delivery businesses which are still going strong in the ongoing situation along with the features helping them survive:
- Online Grocery Delivery
Online grocery delivery has been one of the most important and consistent businesses since the beginning of this widespread corona disease. Daily food supplies and other daily household needs got badly affected due to restrictions on moving out of homes. To cope up with these necessities in the lockdown and curfew phases, the businesses delivering groceries at doorstep immediately came into limelight and the people also transformed their shopping routines from buying things physically to ordering them digitally, thus leading to sudden rise and expansion in online grocery delivery business worldwide. - Food Delivery
The self-isolated consumers across the globe cannot move out to restaurants or food outlets due to Covid-19 scare, and have to survive by cooking themselves at home even if they don’t know how to cook. In such a scenario, food delivery businesses such as DoorDash, GrubHub, Zomato, UberEats, Swiggy, etc. have proved to be the saviours for both consumers and the restaurants. People can order food from home, and restaurants can serve the people by cooking in their sanitized kitchens, with the help of these food delivery applications. - Contactless Delivery
The method of contactless delivery has increased the safety of consumers as well as of delivery guys as well. By adopting this precautionary measure, delivery businesses such as Zomato, Swiggy, Domino’s, McDonald’s, DoorDash, etc. have guided their delivery personnel to drop the on-demand orders at the doorstep of customers, and wait outside till the customers pick their order thus restricting person-to-person contact. - Amazon
Amazon, the biggest home-delivery service provider in the world, has recently announced to hire 100,000 additional employees in US alone in order to cope up with the surge in online orders as it has been badly hit with delivery delays and product shortages due to the Covid-19 outbreak. This clearly shows unexpected growth in online orders proving the increased reliability of consumers on online shopping. Amazon has also offered to pay extra to its employees working during this critical situation.
Conclusion:
As the businesses across the world have been hit in an unprecedented manner, such on-demand delivery verticals have helped sustain the tough times to a huge extent. With passage of time, delivery businesses will definitely find more ways to deal with increased online orders and to retain their customers by providing safe and timely services.
