{"id":12239,"date":"2023-11-14T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2023-11-14T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:47:26","slug":"bolt-food-is-shutting-down-nigeria-and-south-africa-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12239","title":{"rendered":"Bolt Food Is Shutting Down Nigeria And South Africa Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolt Food, the online food-ordering arm of ride-hailing company Bolt, is closing down its operations in Nigeria and South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigerian technology publication TechCabal reports that the Estonian company which launched food delivery services in the West African country in October 2021 will cease operations on December 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In South Africa meanwhile, Bolt Food will stop operating on December 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said it is pulling out of two of Africa\u2019s largest economies because of strategic reasons as it seeks to streamline its resources and maximise efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bolt-Food-1-1024x535.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bolt-Food-1-1024x535.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bolt-Food-1-980x512.webp 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bolt-Food-1-480x251.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolt Food, the online food-ordering arm of ride-hailing company Bolt, is closing down its operations in Nigeria and South Africa. Nigerian technology publication TechCabal reports that the Estonian company which launched food delivery services in the West African country in October 2021 will cease operations on December 7. In South Africa meanwhile, Bolt Food will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Bolt-Food.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12242,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions\/12242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}