DoorDash is seeing a surge in non-restaurant orders from new customers, including grocery and flower deliveries.
The delivery company has 100,000 retail stores on its app, surpassing Instacart's 80,000 merchants.
The company said more new customers are turning to the app for non-restaurant orders as DoorDash has grown its retail selection to more than 100,000 stores.
In July, online grocery sales dropped 7% to $7.2 billion compared to July 2022 , according to the latest monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey.
Driving the downturn was delivery sales, which decreased 13.3% to $2.6 billion , according to the July survey released August 9.
Persons:
Tony Xu, DoorDash, Xu, Grubhub, Uber, It's, Petco, Staples, Brittain Ladd, Instacart, confidentially
Organizations:
Service, Albertsons, Aldi, Target, Walgreens, Dollar
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