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A more cynical take on this might be that it's hard to actually turn a sustainable profit in this market unless you have monopolistic pricing power, and hence, consolidation. Less of "the strong get stronger" and more of "the unprofitable become few enough to become profitable"


> A more cynical take on this might be that it's hard to actually turn a sustainable profit in this market unless you have monopolistic pricing power,

I'm not convinced even a sole provider would have pricing power in anything but a vastly smaller market than currently exists: food delivery doesn't compete with only other food delivery, but also with “drive there yourself takeout” and “cook (or at least heat up) food at home”, which limits the scope of pricing power.


Or some kind of automated delivery. Or both.


Horizontally integrated food delivery is a natural monopoly even without abusing monopolistic pricing power




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