The delivery company Skipcart is skipping out on its partnership with Walmart, in another supply-chain breakup for the grocery giant.
The move highlights a dilemma in the war to bring brown paper bags right to your doorstep: Grocery shopping is a drag. Online delivery is booming. Why is it so hard to make money doing it?
The competition to deliver your groceries is tight. The task can be a logistics nightmare.
Ben Jones, Skipcart’s CEO, told Bloomberg that the grocery-delivery model has a hole in the bag.
“It doesn’t work today,” he said, “and it’s not going to work six months from now. We’re all losing money.”
In December, Walmart announced a pilot program to test autonomous grocery delivery.