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Europe’s Booming Rapid Grocery Startups Face Dutch Freeze

A Flink grocery delivery rider in Berlin.

A Flink grocery delivery rider in Berlin.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Dutch cities are putting a halt on the explosive growth of new distribution centers of rapid delivery companies such as Getir, Flink and Gorillas.

After Amsterdam and Rotterdam have imposed a one-year freeze on new “dark stores,” The Hague and Utrecht are also considering similar measures, the spokespeople of the two municipalities told Bloomberg.