Wenzel: Delivery fees in quick commerce are an obsolete concept like 90s Yahoo
Ralf Wenzel · Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 4, 2022 · at 34:35
Ralf Wenzel is the founder and CEO of JOKR. He argues against charging customer delivery fees, viewing them as outdated and counterproductive to user adoption.
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“Look, I think delivery fees are a little bit of concept of the past, right? It sounds a little bit like Yahoo in the nineties.”
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