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| Industry | Online retailer |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Defunct | June 2001 |
| Fate | Bankruptcy, resurrected by Amazon.com in 2009 |
| Headquarters | Foster City, California, U.S. |
| Products | Grocery |
Number of employees | 3,500 (at its peak)[1] |
Webvan was a dot-com company and grocery business that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 after 3 years of operation. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, United States. It delivered products to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing.[2] At its peak, it offered service in ten US areas: the San Francisco Bay Area; Dallas; Sacramento; San Diego; Los Angeles; Orange County, California; Chicago; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Atlanta, Georgia.[3] The company had hoped to expand to 26 cities by 2001.[4]
Long after the failure of Webvan, the concept of companies delivering groceries very quickly grew from about 2020, and several companies were vying for business from dark stores.[5]
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- ^ Kale, Sirin (9 December 2021). "Beware the emergency avocado: what does ultrafast delivery really cost us?". The Guardian.