Ola pulls the plug on food, grocery ordering service

March 10, 2016 16:31

A year after launching its food and grocery ordering service, Ola, the native challenger to Uber, has shut them down, reports Tech Crunch.

Ola Caf and Ola Store were launched with great fanfare in some tier 1 cities, but rising costs and low user interest put paid to the pilot projects.

In a blog post, Ola, which has so far raised $ 1.4 billion in investments, said: 'As we strengthen our focus on building mobility for a billion people, we are drawing these two experiments to a close and taking learnings from these to serve you better in the time to come.'

You can read the report here.

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