Darkstore expanding to New York and Phoenix
Darkstore, a startup company which provides warehousing and fulfilment services for e-commerce players, is expanding beyond its San Francisco base into New York and Phoenix. Essentially, Darkstore’s warehousing locations provide a distribution point from which e-commerce companies can ship their products to customers.
Darkstore charges a service fee equivalent to 3% of the retail price of the item, and this covers the storage, fulfilment, picking & packing and delivery coordination. The service fee does not include the delivery fee. Darkstore does offer discounted pricing for large-volume customers.
According to the corporate website, Darkstore’s locations “support on-demand, same-day and 2-day deliveries” and the company “works with both on-demand delivery services like UberRUSH and traditional couriers like UPS, Fedex and USPS”.
Darkstore’s CEO is Lee Hnetinka, who previously headed up the on-demand delivery service WunWun. The company was launched in May with seed funding of $150,000 and received $120,000 of investment from R/GA Ventures in August.
