Just Eat teams with Big Four supermarket Sainsbury's for grocery deliveries in the UK

Just Eat has launched a new partnership with Sainsbury’s, marking the food delivery platform’s second tie-up with one of the UK’s ‘Big Four’ grocery retailers (Asda being the first to get onboard).

The partnership will launch with more than 175 stores by the end of February in locations including London, Edinburgh and Bristol, with plans to roll-out to more cities across 2023.

Customers across the UK will be able to purchase items from Sainsbury’s via Just Eat, from fresh milk and vegetables to household essentials. The latter will then take care of the delivery, through its network of couriers across the UK.

With over 2,000 grocery sites on its platform, Just Eat says that the tie up is a significant step in its plan to further expand its grocery offer.

The partnership will widen the range of products available, starting with more than 3,000 items ready for consumers to buy online.

Just Eat Takeaway.com also works with Getir, Asda, Ahold, Carrefour, Booker, Spar, Shell, 7-Eleven, Marqt, PLUS, Pascual Group, Galp, Kibus, Taste of America, Delicatessen Argentina and The Beer Store.

Cloud first strategy

Last year, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it was working with Sainsbury’s as the retailer looked to accelerate its cloud first strategy.

TCS has been a strategic partner to Sainsbury’s for over a decade.

As a part of a new multi-year deal, it will consolidate and modernise the retailer’s IT infrastructure landscape into a hybrid cloud stack using TCS Enterprise Cloud.

It will also provide end-to-end managed services for workplace services, network connectivity, and security.

The aim here is to help Sainsbury’s speed up time to market, create new revenue streams, and enhance agility to respond in real-time to emerging business scenarios.

Sainsbury’s plans to reinvest the savings to offer value to customers through innovation and lower costs.

“This platform transformation underpinned by a cloud first strategy is critical for our business. TCS was the partner of choice given their deep contextual knowledge and ability to align this transformation to our business strategy and vision,” said Phil Jordan, Group CIO, Sainsbury’s.