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New Qatar-based apps aim to solve your laundry and grocery issues

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As life in Doha gets busier, with more cars on the roads and fewer parking spaces, doing everyday chores like grocery shopping and laundry can be a headache.

A growing crop of Qatar-based entrepreneurs are trying to ease some of that pain, rolling out new mobile apps to tackle ordering groceries and sending out the dry cleaning.

Among them is eGrab, a new grocery-shopping app nurtured at the Qatar Business Incubation Center and soft-launched on Android and iOS this summer.

The firm has so far signed agreements with two supermarket chains – Quality Hypermarket and Family Food Center – but expects more stores to join in the coming months.

Food shopping

Customers order food by scrolling through the menus and clicking on the items to put them into their shopping basket. Teams of “pickers” at the chosen supermarkets fulfill the orders and send them out. Drivers then use GPS and the municipality’s blue plaque address system to get food to your door.

Original article by Lesley Walker

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New Qatar-based apps aim to solve your laundry and grocery issues

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