Category: Ridesharing and Gigs
UberPET for Uber Pets is a Real Thing Not a Parody – Available Now in These Cities!
Uber Pet, which is, yes, a real thing (and actually spelled as uberPET), is set to launch tomorrow (October 16, 2019) in seven select U.S. cities and metro areas: Austin, Denver, Nashville, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Phoenix, and Tampa.
Uber Offers Flu Shots and (RED) AIDS Fighting through UberHealth
Don’t have time to go out and get a flu shot? Now through Uber’s UberHealth service, you can have on-demand mobile flu shots come to you! During a one-day promotion last week, in select cities throughout the United States, from Atlanta to San Francisco, Uber Health would bring a nurse-administered flu shot right to your door. While this was a one-day offering, we’re sure that they’ll offer it again. (See below for a full list of cities in which Uber offered an Uber flushot.) And in the meantime, Uber has teamed up with AIDS-fighting program (RED) to raise money for the (RED) AIDS program.
UberRUSH: When You Want to Have Uber Rush a Package Somewhere
Uber has rolled out its UberRUSH package delivery service in initial locations San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City (Manhattan). UberRUSH is basically for business packages what Uber is for human passengers. While at first blush it may seem like it is competing with services like Amazon Prime Free (Amazon’s same-day delivery service) or even Amazon Prime Now (the Amazon one-hour delivery service), Business Insider is calling UberRUSH the “FedEx killer”. That’s because while individuals can use UberRUSH, it was really created for merchants and other businesses to use to get their product to local customers quickly and efficiently (and of course let’s not overlook the ‘cool’ factor).