The Winnipeg-headquartered food-delivery app provider wants to tap into consumers’ pandemic-driven reliance on delivery services and expand into flowers, pharmaceuticals, pet supplies and alcohol, said Steve Puchala, who recently became CEO. (The Globe and Mail)

Talking point: The company has the capability through its grocery partners and microfulfilment centres to “extend into almost any vertical,” he said. Asked about when the new services might launch, Hannah Korsunsky, a spokesperson for parent company Just Eat Takeaway.com, said in an email to The Logic that “we will have more details to share on our vertical expansion in the coming weeks.” SkipTheDishes already delivers alcohol in some provinces, most recently adding Saskatchewan in October. It started offering the service in 2017 in Vancouver and has since grown to deliver booze from more than 1,000 alcohol retailers and 4,000 restaurants. Expanding into deliveries for products other than food would come as the pandemic-fuelled demand for food-delivery apps has slowed.