Food delivery company DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) apparently closed a deal with Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI), a large supermarket and supermarket company whose chains include more than 2,700 stores, behind only Kroger (NYSE: KR) in the United States. Albertsons operates approximately 18 different chains, with important names among them, including Safeway, Vons, Shaw’s, Albertsons, Acme Markets and Jewel-Osco.
According to SFGATE reports, Albertsons will begin using DoorDash’s delivery services for Safeway and Vons stores on February 27. The supermarket company will also begin to dispense with delivery drivers for these chains. An Albertsons representative, Wendy Gutshall, said the move “will allow us to compete in the growing home delivery market more effectively” and that the new strategy resulted from “a lot of consideration”.
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While the pact between DoorDash and Albertsons was broken as a result of news activists in California by Knock.LA, the Los Angeles Times DoorDash reports will begin delivering to networks across America and not just in the Golden State.
Several sources, including the California Labor Federation, say, however, that the results of the alliance are directly from the approval of California’s Proposition 22. paying jobs for “drivers, which the union calls” dedicated frontline workers “during the pandemic.
Proposition 22 allows delivery companies like DoorDash to classify their workers as independent contractors, so that they do not have to offer standard benefits to employees in accordance with labor law. DoorDash contributed $ 52.1 million to support the approval of Prop 22.
DoorDash made a considerable noise with a high-priced IPO, but has since obtained forecasts from analysts that it will be unable to “fulfill” its initial $ 50 billion valuation.