News
Yango Deli Tech Partners With Grocery Delivery Platform Nana
The partnership will allow Nana to significantly enhance user experience and support MENA region expansion plans.
Nana, Saudi Arabia’s leading online grocery delivery platform, has a presence in 18 cities and offers speedy delivery of over 22,000 products. Today, the company announced a partnership with Yango Deli Tech to realize its MENA-wide expansion plans.
Yango Deli Tech is a “global company providing proprietary technologies and expertise for retailers”. The company’s AI-based smart technology solutions will help to make Nana’s fulfillment and delivery operations more efficient while boosting client experience and offering enhanced analytics.
The official partnership follows a pilot project at one of Nana’s stores earlier this year. The experiment showed that the delivery platform could reduce the average missing items per day by 97% using a warehouse management system featuring smart routing and a dedicated stock-picking app that decreased order preparation time by over 35%. At present, the partnership is working at full capacity across all of Nana’s stores.
Also Read: The Largest Data Breaches In The Middle East
In a recent statement, Max Avtukhov, Yango Deli Tech’s CEO, commented: “We are honored to partner with Nana to advance on a global mission of making high-tech e-grocery the reality of today and provide best-in-class user experience to consumers in Saudi Arabia and other markets in the Middle East”.
Meanwhile, Sami Alhelwah, Nana Co-Founder and CEO, noted: “Tackling one of the major pain points of the retail sector within the region, we have partnered with Yango Deli Tech to provide our company with the technological and operational experience of other markets to address stock inaccuracies and replenishment inefficiencies which will support our vision and fuel our ambitious goals for further expansion and growth”.
News
Saudi Digital Payments Reach 80% As Cash Use Shrinks
Visa data shows cards and mobile wallets dominate spending, with smartphones now driving a growing share of daily transactions.
Digital payments now account for 80% of all transactions in Saudi Arabia, according to Visa’s latest Where Cash Hides report, another marker of how quickly the Kingdom is moving away from cash.
The share is up four percentage points from a year ago. Around 67% of consumers are now largely non-cash users, paying mainly with cards or mobile wallets. Smartphones are taking a bigger role, with mobile payments making up 16% of transactions.
Cash is retreating in routine spending. Eating out dropped 9%. Bill payments fell 8%, as shoppers opt for faster checkouts and app-based payments.
“The data shows a steady move toward digital payments in Saudi Arabia. Such progress is possible only because banks, fintechs, merchants, and technology partners are moving together in the same direction, in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030,” said Ali Bailoun, Visa’s Senior Vice President and Group Country Manager for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman.
Also Read: UAE Users Sleep Less, But More Efficiently, ŌURA Data Reveals
Despite the recent findings, it’s important to note that cash hasn’t yet disappeared. It still shows up for tips (39%), peer-to-peer transfers (28%) and rent (14%).
Visa points to security features such as tokenization, along with rewards and cashback, as factors nudging more spending onto cards and phones — a shift that tracks with Saudi Arabia’s wider Vision 2030 push to digitize commerce.
Saudi Digital Payments Reach 80% As Cash Use Shrinks
Samsung Confirms Galaxy S26 Privacy Display Mode
Lebanon Officially Licenses Starlink Internet
SIRBAI Unveils Autonomous Drone Swarm Technology At UMEX
iPhone 18 Pro Leak Hints At Under-Screen Face ID
Belkin Launches Wireless HDMI Adapter With 131-Foot Range
Clicks Bets On Physical Keyboards With CES 2026 Launch
Deliverect Rolls Out Self-Order Kiosks Across MENA
Emirates Post Issues Stamp Set Celebrating AI In UAE Schools
