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Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by opportune on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:53PM (#14648771)
You and I have different definitions of high quality then. I am thinking of the kind of food produced at the Googleplex or at a similar facility, except with slightly more choice. I would wager most would view this similarly, since most people (at least nobody I know) aren't gourmands with personal relationships at where they eat. I'm not talking about a premium restaurant experience, more like restaurant takeout a la ubereats but without the prohibitively high cost.
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Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by Mz on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:57PM (#14648812)
I don't have the money for premium restaurants. I'm quite poor. But I am a gourmand and tend to have personal relationships with people where I eat regularly. Guilty as charged.

So, um, yeah, it sounds like your idea of quality food and mine are not at all on the same page. I think there are ways to get quality food at a reasonable price (I think this because of the aforementioned not wealthy status and years of eating well anyway), but I have serious trouble imagining that a meal-in-a-box delivery service would be it and I have difficulty imagining your idea would be it either.

But thank you for clarifying.

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Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by prawn on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:40PM (#14651091)
Are you talking about quality food or quality, personalised food? At a pricepoint, I think you could definitely manage the former. I think the latter is less common and is best left to premium services or home cooks more often than not.
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Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by Mz on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:48PM (#14651121)
My comments in this section of this discussion are basically in response to this:

What there is really a market for is a service that can deliver fresh or at least reasonably high quality food, which is customizable to individual preferences, for a reasonable cost (~$5 or so), on-demand, and in a timely manner.

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