Last time Sifted met Oscar Pierre, the 20-something founder of Spanish delivery startup sensation Glovo, he had just returned from a field trip to Madrid to visit the company’s first mini-supermarket, “SuperGlovo”. He was pretty excited about Glovo delivering groceries from its own tiny warehouses, rather than relying on supermarket partners.
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