When Barcelona decided to clamp down on dark stores, it opened a new chapter in the story of rapid grocery delivery. In January, the city’s authorities rolled out new restrictions on buildings ...

And yet it is precisely dark art – or the dark arts – that has consumed the South African imagination and that Du Toit sought to overturn. Bold colours, naive figuration and rapid-fire lines ...

In Rotterdam Getir has even turned one dark store’s window displays into an art gallery. Others are opening up their dark stores to the public, too. Gorillas in July opened a coffee shop within one of ...

Zapp has more than two dozen. There are several other smaller players – such as Deliveroo’s rapid arm Deliveroo Hop with a handful of dark stores, including one created with Waitrose in Bermondsey, ...