Aldi Süd is apparently working on food delivery with this startup

The software of the still young company Spryker is to be the basis for an online platform. Whether Aldi Nord will also come on board is still open.

Aldi Süd has been testing an online store with subsequent grocery delivery in the U.S. for several weeks and could possibly bring the concept to Germany as early as 2023. That's according to reports from the Handelsblatt. Aldi Süd then wants to deliver mainly fresh food.

The offering could thus become a direct competitor to numerous start-ups such as Flaschenpost. Founded in 2014, the start-up initially scored with an online beverage delivery service before being sold to Dr. Oetker in 2020 for presumably almost one billion euros. For some time now, the start-up has also been offering food delivery under new ownership. With its possible delivery service, Aldi is also competing with Bringoo and possibly even with fast delivery services such as Gorillas, Knuspr and Flink. Aldi's competitor Rewe, among others, has a stake in the latter. However, it remains to be seen whether this will actually happen. Aldi Süd told Lebensmittelzeitung : "Like all market participants, we have always been observing developments on the market and conduct daily test runs in various areas worldwide."

A grocery delivery service could apparently be made possible by the work of Berlin-based startup Spryker. Founded in 2014, the start-up already works with many large companies and, according to Wirtschaftswoche , provides the technical basis for the online platform. The start-up's offering here is something like a modular system for online stores. After various rounds of financing, it is already worth more than $500 million, has just expanded into the U.S. and has recently grown strongly despite the crisis, as HR manager Elise Müller told Startbase.