Yandex.Lavka

Yandex Lavka offers consumers finished products both of its own production (the direction grew out of the Food Party, which the company acquired in 2018, later renamed Yandex.Chef and partners, including the ABC of Taste.

2024: Opportunity for couriers and drivers to get a discount of up to 35% on goods from the range "Shops"

Couriers, drivers, order collectors and storekeepers cooperating with Yandex services can now receive a discount of up to 35% on products, household chemicals and other goods from the Lavka range. The discount is valid if the partner picks up his order by pickup. This was announced on February 16, 2024 by representatives of Yandex. Thus, Yandex continues to develop its program to support couriers and other partners. In the future, pickup of orders may become available to other buyers at Lavka.

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The service is already valid for partners in Moscow, the service plans to introduce it in other cities. You can select a pickup at checkout in the "Shop." After that, the service will immediately show the size of the discount.

Before launching the service for all partners, the service first introduced it only for couriers-partners of Lavka. Pickup has already shown a high demand: 86% of delivery workers who cooperate with Lavka and order goods in it make orders on the service only with pickup. The service allows you not only to receive purchases in a convenient way and use discounts, but also to acquaint you with the capabilities of the service and its assortment of those partners who have not previously made orders at Lavka.

Yandex services are consistently developing a courier support program to provide them with a comfortable working environment. Couriers have access to insurance on slots, free legal advice and bonuses from partners, for example, favorable tariffs for cellular communications and discounts on rental and repair of bicycles. Since 2023, Yandex has been offering couriers comprehensive meals at low prices - most of the cost of lunch is paid by the company. Yandex allocated 60 million rubles for the food program. In periods when the number of orders increases sharply, couriers receive additional payments - for example, on New Year's holidays 2023/24, the company spent 2.5 billion rubles on this, Yandex said.

2023

Possibility of joint purchases

In Yandex Shop, buyers can now collect a basket of goods together. To do this, the service has the opportunity to share a link to a filled basket with other people. This is convenient for joint purchases. For example, in preparation for the New Year's party, you do not need to ask others what exactly to buy them - everyone can choose the products themselves and add them to the basket. All this will come with one order. Yandex announced this on November 28, 2023.

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To take advantage of this opportunity, just open the Shops application, put the goods in the cart, click on the "Share" icon in it and send another person a link or QR code. When you switch on them, the second buyer opens the Shops application in the phone or, for example, Food, if they are installed, and if not, the Shops website. The shopping cart will already contain the items that the first customer chose. The second person can add something else to them and share the cart with the third buyer or place an order.

If people choose goods in shops at different addresses, the service checks whether all the necessary products are in the darkstore, from which the delivery will be. If something is not available, Lavka will warn about this so that you can immediately find a replacement.

Using the YandexGPT neural network

Yandex.Lavka began adding product information to its application neuronets YandexGPT using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. They analyze the photo of the label of each product and independently fill out its card. This will allow the service to triple the speed of updating product information, simplify the work of content managers, and buyers will be able to quickly learn about new products on the platform. About this in "" told Yandex September 12, 2023.

Now, to add information about the new product, it is enough to take a photo of its packaging and upload it to the Yandex.Shops content system. Recognition technology will analyze the photo and translate it into text, and the YandexGPT neural network will take the characteristics of the product from it and fill out its card. Previously, this took more time - the content manager needed to manually transfer all information about the product from the label to the system, which is about 20 characteristics: composition, weight, manufacturer and more.

Yandex Lavka began filling out product cards for photos of labels using the YandexGPT neural network

To teach the neural network to work with data on goods, Yandex.Lavka showed her 16 thousand ready-made cards. According to the developers, the neural network will continue to learn while working - content managers will help it in this. They will check YandexGPT filled cards, fix them if necessary, and show neural networks. So Yandex.Lavka plans to work even faster and more accurately with information about new products. Other companies can implement a similar solution by requesting access to YandexGPT through the API.

In the future, Yandex.Lavka plans to solve more different tasks related to texts using YandexGPT, for example, create detailed descriptions of goods and give advice on what they can be combined with, the company added.

The opportunity to find out what couriers dream of

Yandex Lavka has launched a project to better introduce users to those who help them receive purchases every day - couriers. After placing an order, now in the service application you can see a photo of the courier assigned for delivery and find out the dream that he is saving for. If desired, buyers can leave tips to delivery workers to help them fulfill their plans. Yandex announced this on August 21, 2023.

Before launching the project, Yandex Lavka interviewed partner couriers and revealed the most common options for what they dream of saving up. The three most common answers are: paying for a new bike, studying at a driving school, traveling. There are also unique options - for example, to save up for Chinese courses, your own recording studio or a wedding dress for your favorite girl. Couriers can tell about their dreams themselves at any time - in the Yandex.Pro application, which allows you to receive delivery orders.

With the help of this project, Lavka continues to form a culture of tips. So, the service already has automatic tips - you can select the amount in advance to transfer it to the courier after each delivery. This opportunity is popular among buyers: in Moscow, the number of orders with tips in July 2023 increased in Lavka by 71% compared to the same period a year earlier. Yandex delivery services also have programs for additional support for couriers. For example, during the New Year holidays, services at their own expense double the tips that users leave to couriers.

You can find out the dream of the courier who delivers orders from Yandex Lavka, and leave a tip for it in the applications Lavka, Market Deliveri, Go, and also on the Market. Yandex.Food also asks partner couriers what they want to save up for, and shows these dreams in its application, and customers can leave them a tip.

Absentee arrest of Ilya Krasilshchik

In mid-March 2023, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the ex-head of Yandex Lavka Ilya Krasilshchik (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), who is accused of disseminating deliberately false information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces . Read more here.

2022

Development of a prototype of warehouse robots

Yandex announced on August 5, 2022, the development of two prototypes of warehouse robots. The task of one of them is to inventory the goods that are stored in the logistics complex of the Market, and the other is to move the goods in the darkstore of the Shop, lay them out on the shelves and bring them to order collectors. Both robots will help speed up warehouse processes and free people from monotonous tasks so they can tackle more complex and interesting tasks in the warehouse. Read more here.

Wanted list of Ilya Krasilshchik

On July 7, 2022, it became known about the wanted list of Ilya Krasilshchik. The relevant information is published in the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. It states that the Dyer is wanted "under the article of the Criminal Code," but according to which - there is no information. Read more here.

Initiation of a criminal case against the ex-head of Yandex Lavka

On April 22, 2022, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against Ilya Krasilshchik. The ex-head of Yandex Lavka is suspected of disseminating false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Read more here.

2021

Yandex buyout shares in Yandex.Lavka from Yandex.Taxi

According CNews to the press service Yandex of "," the company will fully buy out from the joint venture (JV) with the company - Uber the group of companies "," Yandex.Taxi shares in Yandex.Eda, Yandex.Lavka, Yandex.Delivery, as well as business self-driving cars in rovers. The total amount of the transaction, according to data to Yandex, is estimated at $1 billion. This became known on August 31, 2021. More. here

Entering the markets of France and Britain

On April 16, 2021, Yandex announced the upcoming launch of Yandex.Lavka in France and Britain. In these countries, the grocery delivery service will operate under the global brand Yango Deli, but according to the same scheme (darkstores are warehouses that work only for express delivery when ordering via the Internet) as in Russia. Read more here.

2020

After a 40% decrease in the number of migrants in Moscow, there was an acute shortage of food delivery workers

As it became known in October 2020, after a decrease in the number of migrants in Moscow, an acute shortage of food delivery workers arose and the number of customer complaints about undelivered or late orders increased. Read more here.

Yandex.Rover courier robots begin delivering products from Yandex.Lavka

On October 22, 2020, it became known that courier robots Yandex.Rover"" are starting to deliver products from Yandex.Lavka in. To Moscow CEO Facebook "" announced this on his page on the social network. Yandex.Taxi Daniil Shuleyko More. here