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In the Netherlands, these services tried to disrupt the supermarket market by basically ignoring zoning laws. As the externalities dark stores create have been
by aden1ne 4y ago
In the Netherlands, these services tried to disrupt the supermarket market by basically ignoring zoning laws. As the externalities dark stores create have been disrupting enough for residents to complain en masse, cities are clamping down hard. Which means that 15-minute delivery promise is increasingly impossible to achieve.
- nikanj 4y agoWhy on earth is it illegal to have a grocery store closer than 15 minutes from your home?
- rootusrootus 4y agoIt's not a grocery store, it's a dark store. I.e. just a small warehouse of food that has delivery drivers coming and going 24 hours a day to make local deliveries faster. If you read some prior discussions on this you'll find that in many cases the people operating them are disruptive to the neighborhood and really aggressive towards anybody who dares complain about it. So it gets escalated to the city and eventually they clamp down. As they should.
- aden1ne 4y agoIt isn't. Most places in the Netherlands - and definitely in larger cities - are rarely more than 10-minute stroll from any grocery store. Anecdata, but as an example there are four supermarkets within a 10-minute stroll from my place of residence, and about two dozen smaller grocery stores. However, the cities are arguing that dark stores aren't actually stores. You can't buy anything by going to them. The cities argue they are distribution centers. And distribution centers are not typically located in quiet residential areas.
- aenis 4y agoNoise. Trucks, delivery guys having their breaks, and so on. Dutch residential areas are quiet and densely populated, and designed to be comfortable for the residents. Dark stores are about as attractive as neighbours as pubs.