In a small warehouse on Dublin’s Lombard Street East, a buzzing noise rings out from a laptop that alerts the team inside that an order has just come in. They must move fast because the order needs to be out the door and in the customer’s hands in 15 minutes. One of the workers grabs a basket and dashes from one shelf to the next gathering groceries for the customers. Within minutes those goods will be in a delivery rider’s backpack and on the road. This is the nature of the ‘dark store’ operated by online grocery delivery start-up Shuppa…

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