Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company
by skinnymuch on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:41AM
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Borders Toys r us, maybe Target? Outsourced their sites to Amazon for years. All to disastrous results. Can't count Borders vs Amazon.
Barnes & Noble gave a decent try, to this day maybe (haven't been on for a few years). They even got domains like books.com 20 years ago. But they would do the annoying thing many retailers did - consider the website secondary to their brick & mortar. Price things differently online, not accept an online price in-store and vice versa. B&N years later even did a decent job with the Nook. It still didn't get them anywhere.
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Which service did you use? I only know of Peapod in the US for big grocery chains. The prices were high. Though when they had items for sale, the cost would be equal to their in store cost or slightly lower. I never had an issue telling them to drop my stuff at my doorstep after the first time when I didn't want them to come inside. Each time I placed a big box or two at my doorstep for them to place my order into. I used Peapod maybe 15 times, on and off, between 2007-2010. That's ages ago for web times.
The big window range was annoying though later on they let you spend a bit extra to make it smaller. Rarely did they miss the time window I set. This all took place in central Jersey.
It felt figured out enough to me a decade ago. Maybe I'm an exception.
Barnes & Noble gave a decent try, to this day maybe (haven't been on for a few years). They even got domains like books.com 20 years ago. But they would do the annoying thing many retailers did - consider the website secondary to their brick & mortar. Price things differently online, not accept an online price in-store and vice versa. B&N years later even did a decent job with the Nook. It still didn't get them anywhere.
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Which service did you use? I only know of Peapod in the US for big grocery chains. The prices were high. Though when they had items for sale, the cost would be equal to their in store cost or slightly lower. I never had an issue telling them to drop my stuff at my doorstep after the first time when I didn't want them to come inside. Each time I placed a big box or two at my doorstep for them to place my order into. I used Peapod maybe 15 times, on and off, between 2007-2010. That's ages ago for web times.
The big window range was annoying though later on they let you spend a bit extra to make it smaller. Rarely did they miss the time window I set. This all took place in central Jersey.
It felt figured out enough to me a decade ago. Maybe I'm an exception.