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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

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Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard. consumers on both coasts.

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Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network

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And for us the bigger goal is to build a cross-European, high-quality producer network — coupled with very efficient logistics — so that we can, anywhere, deliver high-quality local producers across Europe.” So grocery freshness is an especially difficult USP for such apps to compete on. And it looks like a solid one.

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Berlin’s Yababa snags $15.5M to scale a multicultural grocery delivery biz across Europe

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This means the logistics element looks easier to streamline (and sustain) vs the likes of q-commerce platforms like Gorillas et al (meaning potentially burning less investor cash). “Basically our USP does not revolve around how fast we deliver a product. “We will build a network of warehouses.

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