A worker rides a bicycle while making a Rappi app delivery in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
These should be fat times for Latin America’s armies of delivery drivers. Across the region of 650 million, people are holed up at home, and hungry.
But the troops are growing fast as the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and kills jobs. It seems that anyone with a bike or a motorcycle is hustling to ferry pizzas and grocery orders, intensifying the delivery wars that have been raging between startups such as Rappi and iFood, international players including Uber Eats and scrappy mom-and-pop outfits.
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A worker rides a bicycle while making a Rappi app delivery in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
A worker rides a bicycle while making a Cornershop app delivery in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
A worker wearing a protective mask rides a bicycle while making an Rappi app delivery in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
A worker wearing an Uber Eats app insulated backpack stands in line at a restaurant in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
A worker wearing a protective mask rides a bicycle while making an Uber Eats app delivery in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
A worker checks a mobile device while making an Uber Eats app delivery in Mexico City, Mexico. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. — Bloomberg
Food app delivery workers wait to receive orders in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday, April 3, 2020. As the coronavirus pandemic strangles economies and throws people out of work, food delivery drivers are competing for orders. Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg
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