Absolutely genius. When I lived in San Fran, there was WebVan trying to do this. But their mistake was trying to 'start' a grocery delivery service and failed to realize their gold nugget was the delivery mechanism. Amazon, on the other hand, already has that down. Always trying to stay ahead of forward thinkers, I'm wondering what their next play is.
Amazon is buying Whole Foods
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I agree on the produce front. I have used Hello Fresh and Blue Apron and I have had issues with some of their produce. Not happy with it.
I don't think the idea of the grocery store is going to go away, especially with the mind set of todays food consumer on freshness, being able to touch and fee it before buying, farmers markets, local, etc. The supply chain is going to have to get better in order to provide the level of produce found in grocery stores if they want to ship directly to my house. I think Amazon's move is to provide more technology in to the store until it can better improve the supply chain enough where something like product is of equal quality as picking up in the store vs shipping it to my house.
I think genetic engineering will have more to do with that in the future. Create product that appear fresher for longer periods of time, firmness, coloration, etc. They already do it for a lot of veggies.
Am I the only one that thinks all of these conglomerates are bad for the future? What happens when Google, Amazon, WalMart, own everything.
It's not really a novel concept in the midwest cities either. If it wasn't popular in Des Moines I don't think Hy-Vee would buy a building just to handle the volume. I'd also like to know what % of Whole foods stores are in suburbs compared to large city centers.
The 2nd and 3rd faces are for when people answer the door wearing an untied bathrobe.I assume they would just attach this to it.
I think a lot of that comes from old people who aren't able to go grocery shopping. I mean they are definitely busy but I think it was more an issue that it greatly interfered with the main grocery store.
I said years ago that Armageddon was going to be Walmart & Disney fighting it out for supremacy. I'm not sure Amazon really existed when I made that prediction
The customer who uses the system the most are young families who either both work and have small children and this saves them time and the hassle of taking kids to the store. The fresh produce and meat selection will always be an issue because everyone has their own standard.
There was a short sighted company in Ames for a while that delivered items to your door. When I realized they didn't have an order minimum, I had this sent to multiple friends of mine.
MonkeyThis? I was going to post about them earlier too. Ahead of their time. We toured their stock "store" for a class. They delivered booze too!
