Re:Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly
by fredley on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @08:05AM
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I find it a bit mind-boggling that this is quicker than just going to the supermarket to get the same thing. I'm in the UK, and if you live in a city where pre-made meal startups can deliver within 20 minutes, you can probably walk to a small supermarket within 5-10 to buy essentially the same sort of thing for less money.
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Re:Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly
by hammock on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:10AM
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Delivery is the added value here
Re:Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly
by fredley on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:18AM
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To each their own, but when I'm hungry I'd rather take a 5 minute walk (or get something on the way home) rather than wait 20 minutes and pay more, with a smaller selection. If you live further away from appropriate shops I can see the value though.
Re:Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly
by denom on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:16AM
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With a dash of externalized cultural decoherence.
Even if I trusted Nestle's motivations here, which I do not, supporting your local farmers market/grocer/coop is a more ethical way to go.
Re:Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly
by hammock on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:34AM
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The chance you have a local farmers market/coop within 5 minute walk from your home/work is pretty slim unless you live/work at a farmers market (or downtown of a city in Vermont).
Re:Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly
by denom on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:06AM
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Agreed. We've had 75 years of the modernist industrial program, e.g. tearing up trolly lines in favor of cars, or suburbanization as a civil defense initiative (among others). The point is not a quick solution, however the point _is_ to have livable cities focused on the human _first_.