Podcast - Prof. John Colley (Warwick Business School) on gig economy and ultrafast grocery delivery (q-commerce)

Professor John Colley from the Warwick Business School discusses developments in gig economy delivery and ultrafast grocery delivery (q-commerce). We cover:

• Demise of rapid, ultrafast delivery

• Difficult economics ultrafast delivery

• High costs of q-commerce never passed on to consumers

• Supermarket chains acquiring failed rapid delivery startups

• Availability of venture capital funding

• Gig economy delivery model

• Regulation of gig economy

• Workers' rights and driver strike action

• Lack of profitability and growth in gig economy delivery

• Difference between markets

• Affluence vs low minimum wages as an indicator of gig economy delivery model viability

• History repeating itself with ride hailing

• Batching of fast food orders