Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by oftenwrong on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:56PM
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>And best of all, you pay no subscription fee
The Prime-Member-only prices appearing at my local Whole Foods suggest that this may be increasingly untrue in the future.
Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by amelius on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:51PM
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I think you missed the point that in both situations there will be a fridge in your house. It's just that in the case of a service, you don't own it but a company does.
You just described a grocery store...
They keep food and beverages at certain temperatures. When you are ready to consume that food or beverage, you can pick it up (or have it delivered). And best of all, you pay no subscription fee :) But in reality, that's not practical. Most families eat 3 meals a day, and consume multiple glasses of some drink a day. To make a trip to the grocery store (or fridge depot subscription place) every time you want to eat or have a cold drink is not practical (and increases environmental pollutants). So maybe you want to go once a day, you'll still need some device at home to keep your groceries and drinks cold until you want to consume, some device like a fridge :p
If you found a solution, that'd be great. But you'd probably just be a food delivery startup with some fancy marketing lingo. And we have plenty of those already.