Eleven Thousand LockersNarrow moat

Allegro (ALE) — moat facet

A company that spent two decades owning nothing is putting steel boxes in Polish streets, to change what it gets asked to pay in 2027.

Allegro One Box had more than 8 500 parcel lockers in Poland and more than 800 in Czechia at the end of 20251, and the network passed 11 000 by 30 June 20262.

Allegro One Box lockers9 300+End-2025 (PL + CZ)11 000+30 June 20262025 annual report (8 500+ Poland, 800+ Czechia); Allegro.eu half-year report, H1 2026
About 1 700 lockers added in six months, ahead of the 2027 InPost renegotiation.

That is a genuinely large capital undertaking for a company that spent its first two decades asset-light, and the reason is on the previous page: the supplier that carried most of its parcels raised prices under a contract expiring in 20273. Owning lockers is how a marketplace stops being a price-taker in its largest cost line.

The build is visible in the accounts. Capital expenditure doubled to 470,4 million złoty in 2025, with the Polish operations at 434,9 million against 184,2 million4, and property, plant and equipment rose to 1 383,2 million from 1 022,3 million5. For a business whose balance sheet is mostly goodwill, that is a deliberate change of character.

The Czech figure of more than 800 machines6 is the part worth watching, because it says the network is being treated as a group capability rather than a Polish one — the international segment's delivery economics are the same problem at an earlier stage, against suppliers with whom Allegro has even less history.

Allegro has not tried to replace its couriers so much as to stop depending on any one of them. It works with InPost, DPD, UPS, Poczta Polska and Orlen Paczka, adding DHL and DPD in 2025, and takes end-to-end responsibility across all of them7 — a buyer's parcel is Allegro's problem regardless of whose van it is in.

The measure is capital expenditure against the delivery cost it saves. Spending 470 million a year to remove a supplier's pricing power is excellent value if the unit cost falls, and an expensive way to own concrete if it does not.

Moat trajectory: Widening

Capital expenditure doubled to 470,4 million złoty and the network is being extended into Czechia. Allegro is manufacturing the leverage it lacked in 2025.

The number that tests this moat
Reported
Allegro One Box lockers
more than 11 000 by 30 June 2026 (about 9 300 at end-2025)

The network is the leverage for the 2027 InPost renegotiation; the managed share of deliveries (50% in Q2 2026) shows it being used.

Source: Allegro.eu Group half-year report for the six months ended 30 June 2026 ↗
⚠ Threats to the moat
⚠ THREAT 01
Concrete Is Hard to Unspend
A courier contract can be handed back; a locker network gets written down.
References
  1. ReportedAllegro One Box now runs more than 8 500 parcel lockers in Poland and more than 800 in Czechia.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  2. ReportedThe Allegro One locker network exceeded 11 thousand automated parcel machines by 30 June 2026.
    Allegro.eu Group half-year report for the six months ended 30 June 2026 (published 17 September 2026) - KPIs: active buyers, GMV, GMV per buyer, take rate by segment and its explanation, adjusted EBITDA; income statement by segment; cost of delivery; lockers; Allegro Pay; buyback phase 1 — H1 2026 · publ. 17 September 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedThat is a genuinely large capital undertaking for a company that spent its first two decades asset-light, and the reason is on the previous page: the supplier that carried most of its parcels raised prices under a contract expiring in 2027.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  4. ReportedCapital expenditure doubled to 470,4 million złoty in 2025, with the Polish operations at 434,9 million against 184,2 million, and property, plant and equipment rose to 1 383,2 million from 1 022,3 million.
    Allegro.eu selected historical consolidated financial information for Q1 2026 - the operating KPI table (active buyers of 20,4 million with Poland at 15,5 million and the international segment down 7,5% to 4,9 million, GMV per active buyer of 3 492,4 złoty, GMV of 17 293,3m, 378,0 million items sold, a take rate of 12,43% unchanged year on year, and adjusted EBITDA of 931,8m) — Q1 2026 · publ. May 2026 · source ↗
  5. ReportedCapital expenditure doubled to 470,4 million złoty in 2025, with the Polish operations at 434,9 million against 184,2 million, and property, plant and equipment rose to 1 383,2 million from 1 022,3 million.
    Allegro.eu selected historical consolidated financial information for Q1 2026 - the operating KPI table (active buyers of 20,4 million with Poland at 15,5 million and the international segment down 7,5% to 4,9 million, GMV per active buyer of 3 492,4 złoty, GMV of 17 293,3m, 378,0 million items sold, a take rate of 12,43% unchanged year on year, and adjusted EBITDA of 931,8m) — Q1 2026 · publ. May 2026 · source ↗
  6. ReportedThe Czech figure of more than 800 machines is the part worth watching, because it says the network is being treated as a group capability rather than a Polish one — the international segment's delivery economics are the same problem at an...
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  7. ReportedIt works with InPost, DPD, UPS, Poczta Polska and Orlen Paczka, adding DHL and DPD in 2025, and takes end-to-end responsibility across all of them — a buyer's parcel is Allegro's problem regardless of whose van it is in.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, cost review (cost of delivery of 3 578,9m złoty up 26,2% against revenue growth of 10,5%, its decomposition into Smart! volume, the expansion of Allegro Delivery and unit cost, the InPost pricing headwind under an agreement expiring in 2027, marketing service expenses at 2,07% of GMV, staff and IT costs, and capital expenditure of 470,4m) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
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