>"The business model of these companies is that they want to deliver groceries in 10 minutes. That means they need to be based in neighbourhoods. That's exactly

>"The business model of these companies is that they want to deliver groceries in 10 minutes. That means they need to be based in neighbourhoods. That's exactly the place where they also cause nuisance," Amsterdam deputy mayor Marieke van Doornick told Reuters. >The main complaint with these services is that they turn local storefronts into small warehouses, paper over the windows, and create small but locally meaningful delivery operations in residential areas. An increasing number of residents and local politicians believe this is not a good use of such spaces and, if allowed to proliferate, will detract from the whole point of urban living. Isn't this exactly the kind of mixed use development that people were just fawning over? Surely nobody thought that the business portion of mixed use development was going to be exclusively artisanal consumer facing stuff with a storefront?