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Square's been doing what Shopify hasn't, to be honest. I've seen a half-dozen restaurants who didn't do pickup/delivery before the pandemic who are doing their own delivery now — all have stood up square.site fronts. (Probably helps that a lot of them probably used Square for POS anyway.)

Shopify will wait until a partner builds it on their platform, see if they're successful, then acquire them. They've done it a couple times, they have tons of cash and don't need to take huge risks.

A gig platform for delivery drivers is a whole different thing to manage than a common web shopping workflow.

I agree.

But please, let us never use 'lateral' as a verb ever again.