Uber’s latest features could help you spend less for each trip or grocery order – especially if you frequently use the application.
The carpooling and delivery application has unveiled several offers to the budget during its GO-GET annual conference, a tool that finds grocery products cheaper to a new type of shared driving intended for shuttlers who focus on the busiest streets in a region.
With the features, Uber wants to make “things a little easier, a little more predictable and above all, much more affordable” for users, said CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Wednesday at the conference.
Price -concerned features are available while Uber tries to bring existing customers to use its application more. Uber’s latest quarterly results, which the company declared last week, were motivated by “the growth coming from commitment and frequency, not just the price,” said Khosrowshahi on a Call this month.
The company also notes growth in the number of subscribers to Uber One, its paid subscription service which offers discounts and other advantages on rides and delivery.
One of the new features unveiled on Wednesday is the Uber Eats savings cursor. Customers will be able to add grocery products to their basket, then use the cursor to decide the money they would like to save. As they increase the amount of savings, the application will suggest cheaper versions of what they have selected.
The feature could allow users from 15% to 20% on average and will be available later this year in the United States and Canada, Rohan Mathew, Senior Director of Uber delivery engineering in Go-Get.
“If I care about the number of exchanges that Uber makes, I can really increase the savings,” he said. In an example on stage, Mathew increased the amount of savings, which exchanged a coverage which he had selected for a comfortable portable coverage which was on sale.
Uber also adds an option which he calls “route sharing” to his carpooling company. Under the offer, users can save up to 50% on prices by walking more long distances to collect points in the major and animated streets and share journeys with other passengers, said the company during its presentation.
Route Share is “our most affordable driving offer to date” and “the ideal way to go to work and being work without breaking the bank,” Uber said in a statement summarizing the new features. Uber began to offer service on Wednesday in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston and Baltimore.
Road sharing and the functionality of the grocery store are intended for users who integrate them into their daily or weekly routines.
The emphasis placed by Uber on the savings and the amount that customers pay for its services occurs, because many consumer brands are concerned with a potential recession, partly motivated by the persistent effects of President Donald Trump’s prices on the economy.
Uber himself has not reported evidence of a slowdown, customers always spending driving trips and food deliveries. And the presentation of Wednesday did not include a lot of discussions on the state of the economy.
But the conference leaders have made many references to the savings, offers and discounts. While introducing the savings cursor function, for example, Mathew referenced the prices of the grocery store which remained high thanks to inflation.
And Sachin Kansal, Director of Uber products, said at the conference that its itinerary sharing function is intended to help daily shutowers save money.
The use of Uber could also become cheaper if a recession came, Khosrowshahi said recently, because more people are likely to work for the income for income.
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