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Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by pkulak on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:47AM (#14708398)
A store in my area (Fred Meyer) that sells about everything, recently started pushing this service where you shop online and then pull into this special parking space where someone brings you your stuff and loads it into your trunk. I thought it was a great idea, so at about 3 I loaded everything I needed for dinner into my online shopping cart and went to check out. Turns out the earliest they could have it ready for me was the next day. I wasn't even expecting to have to pick a time frame at all. I figured I would just see some message about it being ready in 30 minutes, or some other short time frame.

You'd be amazed at how good entrenched companies are at completely failing to understand what their competitive advantage even is, let alone using it.

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Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by ghaff on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:21AM (#14709525)
Hannafords has a service like this too though I haven't looked into it. Seems sort of a limited use case for me. But at a minimum needs to be, if not ready in an hour, at least order at lunch and swing by on the way home.
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Re:Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company by magic_beans on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:47PM (#14711753)
Wow that's upsetting! Home Depot and Bloomingdale's are both really good about same-day pickup of online orders.
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