
Bloomberg
Jun 14, 2022 - 7 min
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Quick delivery companies have raced to dominate large cities, taking some questionable shortcuts. Gorillas arrived in Belgium in June 2021 amid a flurry of excitement for Q-commerce. Yet, one year later, all of the company's Belgian dark stores are shut, resulting in hundreds of job losses. Morgan Meaker explores how quick-delivery empires are crumbling across Europe as investors look for profits.