Most grocery stores have now begun to offer some form of their own in-house delivery, some of which are profitable. These profitable models generally have higher minimum order requirements, markups on items, non-flexible delivery windows (often multiple deliveries are pooled into one driver trip to save costs), and an unclear view into what product... See more

Doordash and Uber both emerged as leaders delivering from individual stores to individual customers. However, both have been expanding into owned microwarehouses as this model could be more profitable in certain categories, like convenience, grocery, and other consumer categories.

DoorDash is building its own network of dark stores (under the DashMart brand). Moreover, DoorDash is collaborating with retailers to help them master this new logistics format. Retailers act as wholesalers providing the products (inc. their private labels) and the delivery to the dark stores while DoorDash operates the dark stores and takes care o

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