One Friday afternoon in May, Glenn Cobane, 40, who lives with his wife and two cats in Salford, did some grocery shopping: a loaf of bread, bananas, an avocado, cat food, chocolate brownies and some cans of beer. Rather than going to a nearby corner shop or walking a mile to the large Tesco Extra, he ordered from a new app called Weezy. He placed the order at 2.19pm. “I just sent the order, typed an email and then it arrived,” he says. It is 2.27pm and I’m standing on his doorstep beside the courier.
Why not pop to Costcutter, which I can see from his garden? “The app has a better selection. It has cat food and, more importantly, beer,” says Cobane, laughing, pulling out cans of Marble, a…