If you were one of those people who got super pumped about Amazon Prime Now expanding its lightning fast delivery service to Chicago last June, then hold onto your bootstraps. Today Uber launched its delivery service, UberRush, in Chicago. The service will enable local businesses to offer on-demand delivery by way of Uber's network of drivers.
That's right, just like UberEats and, well, Uber, you'll be able to track your driver's progress in real-time via the ride sharing app. The average delivery fee for the Chicago market will start at $5 for the first mile, with an additional charge of $2.75 for every mile after that. Uber is also offering businesses their first 15 deliveries free of charge.
Uber already has DRYV (a dry cleaning service) and Flowers for Dreams (a florist, obviously) on board, so if you spill coffee all over your pants before an important meeting or say something stupid to your significant other, you also have those quick fixes at the touch of a button.
The new service is also being rolled out in San Francisco and New York, two other markets in which Uber is pretty heavily invested. The way things are looking, Uber will have a service for pretty much every American upper-middle class need by the end of the decade.