Sure, I'm gonna let an over-worked warehouse employee pick out my produce, but it in a dirty van, and let it wilt in the back while the driver has to make 200 stops. Yum!
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Have people learned nothing about amazons business model?
Undercut competition at a loss to kill competition and strengthen market dominance. Once step one has worked proceed to raise prices and provide shittier service, cut business cost, fuck over workers and customers alike.
If it's cheaper right now, it wont be for long.
Amazon: copying answers from Walmart
I don't like this change (maybe I'm getting old), but it will be interesting to see the economics of this change. I wonder if this can be cheaper than grocery stores, but my gut feeling is that the store would be cheaper.
The food is coming from grocery stores, mostly the Whole Foods Market that Amazon bought over five years ago. So one is paying regular grocery store prices and a delivery charge (Prime membership or straight cash).
It cannot be cheaper than grocery stores, one has to keep food somewhere with all associated costs of that and add the extra costs for the logistics of delivery to individual homes.
I am not as certain as you
About what specifically? I am curious genuinely. Food distribution is messed up and can surely be done better. It is a very difficult space to innovate in however. So always interested in different perspectives
Personally I'm not interested. I get this might be a great service for those that need it, but it's not for me. Every time I've used one of these delivery shopping services I've received substandard produce that went bad within a day. Also I hate Amazon and enjoy doing my own shopping.