Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) is the most recent footwear retailer to affix the Uber Eats platform – permitting clients to order sneakers straight from the app and have them delivered in as little as one hour.
Beginning at this time, buyers within the U.S. can discover DSW’s assortment of males’s, girls’s and youngsters’ sneakers and equipment from manufacturers like Adidas, Steve Madden, Blundstone and Goodr immediately by the Uber Eats app. Uber One members can entry free supply on eligible orders and different unique financial savings, the corporate famous.
“Fashion emergencies are actual – and with DSW on Uber Eats, we’re making it simpler than ever to feel and look your finest, quick,” Hashim Amin, head of retail for North America at Uber, stated in an announcement. “Whether or not you forgot your sneakers for a weekend getaway or simply noticed the right pair for an evening out, DSW and Uber Eats have you ever coated.”
This new partnership comes one week after DSW guardian firm Designer Manufacturers Inc. chief govt officer Doug Howe stated the corporate had “efficiently” launched its partnership with DoorDash, which might be a supply of recent buyer acquisition. “Whereas it’s early on this relationship, we’re inspired that roughly 85 % of our transactions from the DoorDash market to this point characterize clients which might be new to DSW,” Howe informed analysts on the corporate’s second quarter earnings name final week.
Together with DSW, Dick’s Sporting Items joined the Uber Eats platform in June to supply customers within the app entry to its community of 800 shops.
For retailers like DSW and Dick’s providing this service is one other method to convey customers ultra-fast supply as extra firms purpose to maintain up with Amazon.
“We imagine that velocity and comfort is essential to our omni-channel expertise, and we’re excited to launch our partnership with Uber Eats as an extension of that philosophy,” Scott Casciato, vp of omni-channel success and technique at Dick’s, stated in June. “When these moments come up the place new gear is required, this partnership with Uber Eats extends our capabilities to present our athletes handy purchasing to get the merchandise they want quick and in a method that’s handy for them.”
Final yr, Allbirds joined Uber Eats, whereas Academy Sports activities + Open air teamed up with DoorDash, providing same-day supply in lower than an hour on common. In 2023, JD Sports activities and End Line additionally joined forces with Instacart for same-day supply.
