by hilary russ new york doordash inc the largest us thirdparty delivery company for restaurants on thursday launched a new grocery service entering an increasingly crowded market dominated by instacart inc and amazoncom incs amazon fresh grocery delivery on doordashs app will begin with meijer inc among others and expand to more regional and specialty chains in coming weeks doordashs head of new verticals faud hannon told reuters the more than 680 billion us grocery industry has seen sales rise as the coronavirus pandemic prompted people to stay home and cook more and to shun shopping themselves in favor of lowercontact delivery services advt doordash grocery orders are fulfilled inside of supermarkets by employees of swiss staffing agency adecco group ag who then put orders on a pickup shelf for doordash drivers to deliver doordash pays adecco a fee based on an hourly rate for the number of adecco employees that doordash requests in any given store while doordash drivers are independent contractors adecco workers are adecco employees with benefits doordash said it will deliver flour tomatoes and olive oil in real time just as it does for lunch orders from restaurants earlier this year it launched delivery of general merchandise with 7eleven inc circle k wawa inc walgreens and cvs pharmacy some of these stores also use other thirdparty delivery companies in some areas doordash also delivers goods including food for walmart though customers must still place orders on walmarts app not through doordash doordash is in 4000 cities in the us canada and australia the new service will be included for members of dashpass the companys subscription product nonsubscribers will pay delivery fees starting at 399 grocery stores will also pay a percentage of sales to doordash to cover delivery costs reuters published on aug 21 2020 at 0133 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app grocery delivery amazon grocery industry food delivery doordash restaurants grocery stores instacart homenewsdoordash launches grocery delivery on its app