DoorDash Expands Reach to Include Last-Minute Retail Delivery

“Restaurant delivery service DoorDash is expanding its reach to last-mile delivery for physical retail,” according to an article on Digiday .

The company, which is known for its restaurant delivery service via online ordering, “first stepped into retail delivery with a grocery delivery partnership with Walmart that went live last April and the company is pointing to its 30-minute delivery windows and insight into customer data as part of its pitch to retailers,” the article said.

According to the article, Toby Espinosa, head of business development for DoorDash, said: “Every product that we consume will most likely be delivered at some point in our lives in two hours or less; the first manifestation of that is food. Our Drive [enterprise] platform enables us to make deliveries on behalf of partners that aren’t necessarily food or restaurants, and that’s where we see our entry into new verticals like grocery or retail.”

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