Food Delivery Services: the Challenges of Getting Food to your Front Door

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Peapod

There are examples of successful grocery delivery platforms that have been around for twenty (in the case of Ocado) or nearly thirty (in the case of Peapod) years that built the delivery service around the grocer. On the US’s East Coast, Ahold Delhaize have realized over $1 billion synergistic savings since the Ahold and Delhaize merged in 2016. Part of that is due to the growth of Peapod, its home delivery service. Peapod has captured 5.3% of the $16 billion market in North America (Amazon 12.5%, Walmart 11%, Kroger 6.3%). The service continues to innovate, most recently by opening Peapod Digital Labs to drive digitization and e-commerce development.

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Ocado

In Europe the delivery provider Ocado, founded in 2000, spent 10 years as an independent e-grocer before drafting supply agreements with a list of brick and mortar retailers including Waitrose, Morrisons, Casino Group, and others. Most recently, Ocado inked a deal with Kroger to build 20 Customer Fulfillment Centers using Ocado’s automation technology. Ocado, like Peapod, continues to innovate to offer an efficient food logistics and delivery service, most recently by leading an investment in Karakuri, a robotic food preparation developer.

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Amazon

Ride-hailing and taxi apps looking for ways to generate revenue have often turned to food delivery to create additional revenue streams. Whether its Uber Eats, GrabFood, Ola’s struggle to make its acquisition of Foodpanda profitable, leading to refocusing on in-house food brands delivery, there are an increasing number of players in the food logistics last-mile space. Amazon, having attempted to enter this space with Amazon Restaurants in the UK, is instead entering the market by investing $575 million in Deliveroo.

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Farmstead

Farmstead and Milk & Eggs that provide a doorstep delivery service for produce and products coordinated from local producers.

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Farmstead and Milk & Eggs that provide a doorstep delivery service for produce and products coordinated from local producers.

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Imperfect Foods

Imperfect Produce and Hungry Harvest have a similar service, but emphasize that a good portion of the produce they sell would otherwise have been wasted.

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Imperfect Produce and Hungry Harvest have a similar service, but emphasize that a good portion of the produce they sell would otherwise have been wasted.

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GrubMarket

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Good Eggs

GrubMarket and Good Eggs provide a more general supermarket experience, selling high-quality packaged goods, beverages, health, and kitchenware, alongside locally sourced produce.

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