Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry
by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:17PM
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> Pre-cut & pre-measured ingredients, though, right?
At least when I had BA (and judging by their current recipes, still now) measured, but not cut for the most part. You still prep the ingredients.
> I don't personally get the timesavings of not going to the store, either - my wife or I will go after work, we have a list, it'll take half an hour and then we'll be done for the week.
Meal kits means you aren't planning those meals, aren't making a shopping list for what is needed for those meals, and aren't shopping for those meals.
Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry
by manarth on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:11PM
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"doesn't have a produce market a mile away"
Supermarkets do have much longer opening hours that fit with my working patterns, but sadly don't have the quality of produce as my local farmers' market.
I don't personally get the timesavings of not going to the store, either - my wife or I will go after work, we have a list, it'll take half an hour and then we'll be done for the week. But then I realized that the target market for these services probably doesn't have a car and/or doesn't have a produce market a mile away. It makes a lot more sense if getting groceries is a half-hour trek just to get there and then you need to carry the bags back.