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Re:Impact of the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal on Instacart by philwelch on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:29PM (#15666340)
> there is no Ralfs API to plug into to give real-time inventory information

Which is why "send people to grocery stores" is going to lose out to more vertically integrated models.

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Re:Impact of the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal on Instacart by octernion on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:40PM (#15689488) 

  there is no Ralfs [sic] API to plug into to give real-time inventory information
[citation needed] :) there are many ways to "vertically integrate" with retailers (and yes, some do in fact offer a real-time API of what is in store, and our availability information for those is fantastic)
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