Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries

Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by CPLX on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:28PM (#10259652)

> Now we have instacart, postmates, Amazon Prime Now, Peapod, and more making this model work of fast, local, delivery.

We also have smartphones now.

I was a big fan of Kozmo (and its NYC competitor UrbanFetch) but it was an entirely different kind of experience shopping on an EGA monitor with a dialup connection and I understand why it wasn't as easy to make it work.

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by rrdharan on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @01:29PM (#10260156)

I find it very dubious that you had an EGA monitor hooked up to a machine capable of surfing the Internet, in the very late 1990s/early 2000s.

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by CPLX on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:52PM (#10260768)

I can't get away with hyperbole on HN huh? Ah well ;-)

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Re:Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Cou... by anthonybsd on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @03:24PM (#10260979)

EGA monitor in mid-late 2000? Nonsense :) Not to mention both websties were a breeze to use at the time when Amazon was meh-ish.

I did miss urbanfetch and kozmo when they went out of business though. They had the most massive DVD sale ever.

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