The future of food delivery and RGmania's best-selling single-use products

Not only the increasing importance of e-commerce; takeaway services, but also and especially delivery, have changed consumer habits during the lockdown following the covid-19 pandemic. 2020 has disrupted the way Italians buy products and use services: for example, the number of companies offering food delivery has increased by 140 percent, and most of them have continued to do so even after the lockdown. This is a practice that is not new, but to which 2020 gave a decisive boost because of the change in habits due to theepidemic, in which going out to dinner was not viable and therefore bars and restaurants, continuing with our example, had to adapt to the needs of the moment.

Facilitating the expansion of delivery has also beentechnological innovation-customers can order or book any product or service directly from their smartphones in just a few steps; people, not just millennials, are, moreover, increasingly accustomed to interfacing with apps and digital platforms. If food delivery already had a solid foundation, 2020 was an opportunity for those realities that had not yet questioned the benefits of home delivery and for the growth of those who had long sensed them.

Staying in the food and beverage sphere, and obviously leaving out the big platforms, this was obviously not the case for all realities; some did not have the opportunity to do so, others did not have enough marginality to still others it was a solution that did not convince. With the arrival of summer, the desire to be outdoors, the gradual end of restrictions, and the consequent newfound sociability, delivery is by necessity waning somewhat; however, we are convinced that, hoping that autumn really does bring with itherd immunity, food delivery is not something destined to wane, partly because of the colder season, partly out of convenience and partly perhaps out of habit.