You may soon have the possibility to have your Facebook Marketplace buys picked up and delivered by DoorDash.
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is associating with DoorDash to provide Marketplace items found up to 15 miles away.
Not every item is qualified for delivery, though. Sources suggest to the WSJ that DoorDash will only deliver articles that are small enough to hold in the compartment of a car and that drivers are expected to make deliveries within 48 hours. Either way, it sounds like a practical option for anyone unable to pick up an item themselves.
It also fills a gap in Facebook Marketplace existing local delivery options, which only lets you get more oversized items delivered through a service called Dolly. The service is limited to a little over two dozen cities throughout the U.S. It enables you to connect with one or two local “helpers” that will load bulky items into a pickup truck and deliver them to your house for a fee. Aside from Dolly and DoorDash, Meta also lets Marketplace sellers ship items directly to a buyer’s address.
It’s still unclear how many Marketplace users currently have the option for DoorDash deliveries or how much it costs. Both Meta and DoorDash confirmed the initiative to the WSJ. They said they’ve already been testing it in several cities in the U.S. When reached for comment, DoorDash spokesperson Ali Musa declined to share any further information, and Meta didn’t immediately respond.
The partnership comes just months after DoorDash CEO Tony Xu joined Meta’s board of directors and has reportedly been in discussion since 2021. Over the past few years, DoorDash has broadened its delivery service to include items other than takeout orders.
It also delivers groceries, alcohol, personalized gifts, prescriptions, and COVID-19 test kits. The previous year, the company inked a deal with Dollar General to offer same-day delivery and is also skimming to expand its service to Europe.
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DoorDash, Inc., an American company, operates online food ordering and delivery platforms. The company is established in San Francisco, California. It ran public in December 2020 on NYSE and trades under DASH.
It is the biggest food delivery company in the United States, with a 56% market share. It also holds a 60% market share in the convenience delivery type. As of December 31, 2020, the forum was used by 450,000 retailers, 20,000,000 consumers, and one million deliverers.
DoorDash has been condemned for withholding tips, lowering tip transparency, antitrust cost manipulation, listing restaurants without permission, and allegedly misclassifying staffers.
Stanford University students Andy Fang, Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, and Evan Moore, in the fall of 2012, were getting feedback on a mobile app for small business owners when a macaroon store proprietor told them of her challenges in fulfilling the demand for deliveries.
In January 2013, they established PaloAltoDelivery.com in Palo Alto, California. In the summer of 2013, it accepted $120,000 seed money from Y Combinator in exchange for a 7% stake. It was incorporated as DoorDash in June 2013.
In December 2018, DoorDash surpassed Uber Eats to hold the second position in total U.S. food delivery sales, behind GrubHub. By March 2019, it had reached GrubHub in total sales, at 27.6% of the on-demand delivery market. By early 2019, DoorDash was the most significant food delivery provider in the U.S., measured by consumer spending. It maintained that market position in 2019.
In October 2019, DoorDash extended its first ghost kitchen, DoorDash Kitchen, in Redwood City, California, with four restaurants operating at the location.
In January 2020, it was documented that DoorDash had lied about skimming tips from its drivers, driving them to earn an average of $1.45 an hour after expenses. After the company had allegedly revamped its tipping system, DoorDash was still manipulating per-delivery payouts at the cost of drivers.
By June 2020, DoorDash had extended more than $2.5 billion over many financing rounds from investors, including Charles River Ventures, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, GIC, SoftBank Group, and Kleiner Perkins.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, DoorDash reported it had “stockpiled thousands of gloves and bottles of hand sanitizer” and delivered them to delivery drivers for free. The company also said it had modified the default drop-off option to contactless delivery. That month, DoorDash evolved into the fastest-growing food delivery service.
In October 2020, the company established its “Reopen for Delivery” program to retain brick-and-mortar restaurants closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic companion with local ghost kitchen operators to deliver food – and pick-up-only service.
In November 2020, DoorDash announced opening its first physical restaurant location, partnering with Bay Area restaurant Burma Bites to offer delivery and pickup orders.
On December 9, 2020, the company evolved into a public company via an initial public offering, raising $3.37 billion. By August 2022, the stock was exchanging at $82 per share.
In May 2021, DoorDash was criticized for unauthorized listings of restaurants that had not been permitted to appear on the app. Lona’s Lil sued the company Eats in St. Louis, with the lawsuit asserting that DoorDash had listed them without permission, preventing restaurant orders from going through and redirecting customers to other restaurants instead. Lona’s was “too far away” when it had not paid DoorDash a fee for listing. This aspect of DoorDash’s company practice is illegal in California.
DoorDash started expanding into international markets in 2015, pitching in Toronto, Canada. The company started operating in needs outside North America in 2019, officially establishing in Melbourne, Australia, in September and later expanding into the nation. In 2021, the company expanded its service area to Sendai, Japan, in June and Stuttgart, Germany, in November. Finally, in June 2022, the company grew into the Wellington Region of New Zealand.
The company expanded its service offerings in 2020, counting grocery delivery initially in California and the Midwest in August 2020. In addition, DoorDash expanded its service offerings in 2021 to include DoubleDash, allowing orders from multiple merchants and alcohol delivery in 20 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Canada, and Australia.