The video of ‘The future they imagined, eCommerce food today’

Today, eCommerce food & grocery, although still representing a limited share of the overall turnover of food distribution, has in several cases reached economically sustainable models. This topic was discussed at the eCommerce Food Conference during a round table discussion between Giuseppe Caprotti and Mario Gasbarrino, two historical protagonists of Italian large-scale retail, moderated by Cristina Lazzati, director of Mark Up and Gdoweek

Quick Take — DoorDash – which owns Deliveroo – ended 2025 as the leading third-party marketplace by order volume in the US food and retail sector

DoorDash makes home deliveries but also does Quick Commerce . It works with large chains from McDonald’s to Walmart. It offers service to restaurants to build their online presence and handle direct orders. In 2025 it acquired Deliveroo.

...An integration with ChatGPT now allows users to go from browsing recipes in their AI-based conversations directly to the DoorDash shopping cart..

Marketplace gross order value reached $29.7 billion in the quarter (*), an increase of 39%. Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders was $213 million, up 51% year-on-year, and adjusted EBITDA grew 38% to $780 million..

The company ended 2025 with over 56 million monthly active users and over 35 million paying subscribers through its DashPass, Wolt and Deliveroo Plus subscription programmes… Progressive Grocer

(*) if you multiply by 4 it makes $118.8 billion

Compiled 25 February, updated 26 February 2026

Quick Take — Walmart launches Digital Health Hub

Better Care Services connects customers with third-party providers for same-day telehealth services. Walmart is launching a new digital health platform aimed at simplifying the way customers find care, fill prescriptions and make healthier food choices. The retail giant’s new Better Care Services hub serves as an all-in-one destination that connects shoppers to third-party telehealth providers, prescription services and nutrition resources. According to Walmart, the goal is to reduce the friction that can prevent people from seeking medical care, especially as concerns surrounding cost and convenience continue to mount…

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Quick Take — Glyphosate: one of the most influential studies ensuring the safety of the herbicide has been withdrawn, twenty-five years after its publication

A 2000 study concluding the safety of the well-known herbicide, widely cited since then, has just been officially refuted by the journal that published it. The scientists who signed the study are suspected of having endorsed a text prepared by Monsanto executives…

In 2017, in part of its investigation into the ‘Monsanto Papers’, Le Monde reported that Monsanto executives exchanged emails in 2015 on how to produce new summaries intended to prove the safety of glyphosate in the scientific literature. The aim was to convince regulatory agencies… According to a count by Le Monde, it is cited about forty times in the 2015 European expert report that led to the reauthorisation of the herbicide in 2017. Source: Le Monde

Monsanto’s Roundup was classified as ‘possibly carcinogenic’

Read about lobbying by Monsanto – now owned by Bayer – here.

Written on 13 December, updated on 16 December 2025. Below: Roundup sold on Walmart shelves.