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Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by seanwilson on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:36PM (#14707334)
> Several are working on identical services where you pick up, curbside, the ingredients and instructions in a bag, and pay significantly less for doing so.

Is there anything here that would get in the way of supermarkets usual model? All I can think of is that a package of ingredients would have to have a sell by date of the item that goes out of date the quickest and they would require staff for preparation (e.g. adding only one clove of garlic, packaging up a tablespoon of soy sauce).

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Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by jonwachob91 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:08PM (#14707450)
Publix started offering this service a few weeks ago. I haven't tried it yet (probably never will, for the same reasons I'd never try Blue Apron), BUT they put it in plastic containers with a label for each of the individual items and the instructions. The contents appear to be in individual wrapped vacuum sealed bags. Not sure much beyond that.
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