By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Grocery-in-minutes company Getir’s $1.2 billion deal to buy rival Gorillas is an important step toward consolidation in Europe’s food delivery market, where companies are struggling amid a post-COVID slowdown. After rapid expansion, these businesses were hit in March with a fall in lockdown-driven demand for deliveries and by rising interest rates, while investors soured on loss-making tech companies. The food delivery groups began quickly combining, cutting costs, and exiting markets where they were weak, in a quest to become profitable. Companies and in…