INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Instacart looks to control the end-to-end customer experience for grocery delivery, and Amazon is off doing Amazon-y things with its Whole
Foods delivery system, DoorDash is hoping it can build a network that any company that needs some delivery network can tap without giving up
its direct relationship with their customers
DoorDash is rolling out grocery delivery with Walmart in Atlanta in the first of what may be a major move to become a back-end platform for
expansion of that DoorDash Drive initiative to become a tool that businesses can start tapping for local delivery
And while DoorDash may partly be giving up that direct relationship with users, it can start getting a lot more data when it comes to
That data then helps it become more and more efficient, ensuring that it can get deliveries done in the best matter and attract more
customers, leading to the need for more drivers, and so on.DoorDash also basically started the whole last-mile delivery business on hard
more than valuable enough
you have to get an ice cream cone somewhere before it melts
through the Internet, is a $700 billion-plus company
If DoorDash is going to continue to grow, it has to start expanding into new lines of revenue, and figuring out how to take all the data and
Amazon acquired Whole Foods, and all of its locations in major metropolitan areas, for $13.7 billion and very quickly began offering
two-hour delivery for prime customers for Whole Foods
out how to make such an agile move, and do it as soon as possible
For Walmart, getting this partnership with DoorDash allows it to just add a small segment to its typical customer flow without having to
build out a full-on logistics delivery system
businesses a way to quickly ramp up a delivery network without having to hand off the customer relationship to DoorDash
As they want to expand and deliver more to their customers, they have physical assets to do that, so it provides a nice solution for us to
test other items in the future
