TERRITORIANS who don't want to set foot outside their front doors to buy cigarettes, alcohol and takeaway foods will soon be able to use a new independent home delivery service that promises to do all their running around for them.

Dial-A-Durrie, launched in April, was the first Darwin-based home delivery service to bring everything from McDonald's chicken nuggets to tools from Bunnings.

The service targeted people who were hungover or drunk and couldn't drive to buy the items themselves.

But "a lack of demand" caused business owner Donovan Fantasia to return to his full-time job as a painter earlier this month.

Mr Fantasia said "he was over it", but a rival company offering the same service has announced its intention to launch next year.

Hangover Co has set up a Facebook page and said it was "waiting on a food registration certificate and tobacco licence" before proceeding.

media_camera Hangover Co could soon be delivering to those who just can't be bothered

Hangover Co did not respond to an interview request from the NT News or provide the business owner's name.

Mr Fantasia said home delivery was a difficult service to operate because there "wasn't as much business as (he) thought in Darwin".

"I thought Darwin would be the main place people would be calling you to get them beers or takeaway after a big night but they just prefer to drive pissed instead," he said.

"I was only getting about four calls a weekend.

"It wasn't really worth it because a lot of takeaway stores were reluctant to get involved because they feared customers getting food poisoning if the delivery took too long."

Mr Fantasia said someone once called him and asked for him to "deliver weed".

"I had to say no to that one," he said.

Mr Fantasia said the service did not contribute to Australia's obesity epidemic.

"If people make s*** choices in their life then that's what they do," he said.

"I was just trying to give them an option to stop them drink-driving."

Mr Fantasia said he charged a flat delivery fee of $15 on top of purchase costs.

"There wasn't much money in it with only a few calls every weekend," he said.

"I was trying to do the public a favour but f*** them."