Editing Waitrose (section)

===Waitrose.com===
Waitrose operates its own delivery service, Waitrose.com (previously WaitroseDeliver), which originally was only available in certain shops, delivering goods ordered through the internet and serviced from the local branch. Not to be confused with Ocado, which is an unrelated business, which formerly had a licence to distribute Waitrose items until 1 September 2020, when Waitrose ended its relationship with Ocado, to instead operate deliveries solely by itself from centralised fulfilment centres.<ref name="WR Ocado info 1"/> As well as ordinary online groceries shopping, Waitrose.com also hosts the online ordering system for Waitrose's special order food and cakes service "Waitrose Entertaining". Waitrose became the first supermarket to abolish all delivery charges as of May 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdeliver/app/shop?op=wtrEntertaining&siteCode=BI&source=32129|title=WaitroseDeliver|publisher=Waitrose|access-date=25 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070618032806/http://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdeliver/app/shop?op=wtrEntertaining&siteCode=BI&source=32129|archive-date=18 June 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In October 2011, Waitrose opened a "[[Dark store|Dotcom Fulfilment Centre]]" in Acton, West London, less than two miles from its original shop. The shop employs more than 200 Partners and provides Waitrose internet food deliveries for most of west and central London from a dedicated site. The shop, whilst not open to the public, is laid out in a similar manner to a regular shop and even offers service counter lines, much like a normal Waitrose supermarket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waitrose.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/Waitrose-dotcom-fulfilment-centre-opens-in-London-774.aspx|title=The Waitrose Press Centre Waitrose dotcom fulfilment centre opens in London|publisher=Waitrose.presscentre.com|access-date=25 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106074111/http://www.waitrose.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/Waitrose-dotcom-fulfilment-centre-opens-in-London-774.aspx|archive-date=6 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In March 2020, Waitrose announced that it was to add its Waitrose.com online delivery service to 24 more of its stores across the UK in preparation for its split with Ocado in September 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.talkingretail.com/news/industry-news/waitrose-expands-online-delivery-network-02-03-2020/|title=Waitrose expands online delivery network|last=Wells|first=Liz|date=2 March 2020|website=Talking Retail|language=en-US|access-date=4 March 2020}}</ref>