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Uber has long been experimenting with ways to use its drivers to be more than a taxi company. UberEssentials, an on-demand delivery service, was one of the more intriguing ideas to come out of the company, but that service has been quietly shut down for now. @Drunkmuppet uberESSENTIALS will no longer be available. We're already taking the learnings and using them towards our next experiment! — Uber DC (@Uber_DC) January 22, 2015 It’s surprising to see UberEssentials close down just a month after the company extended the project. It began as a limited trial called Corner Store last summer, serving the Washington DC…

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