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Re:Munchery Shuts Down by Shivetya on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:29AM (#18967775)
Close, but the real problem is trying to compete with an established business method while claiming an innovative web presence and giving back mean anything. People order food from places they have seen under the idea that being local means they get their food sooner and its fresher and hotter and so on.

like the meal kit companies, anything you can do from a centralized site the local companies, home grown or franchise, can do as well. both restaurants and grocery chains co-opted the idea of meal kits and then had the built in neighborhood loyalty.

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Re:Munchery Shuts Down by jermaustin1 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:57AM (#18968649)
> both restaurants and grocery chains co-opted the idea of meal kits and then had the built in neighborhood loyalty.

This is the big thing. I can walk into a Stop and Shop or an ACME or a Shopright and buy a meal kit on my way home, and they usually have a decent selection. They aren't gormet, but they are fit for human consumption ;).

I can just throw it all into a skillet, saucepan/pot, or an instant pot and have it done in 30 minutes without chopping/dicing/slicing.

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Re:Munchery Shuts Down by inferiorhuman on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:05PM (#18969857)
That's a very different market. Munchery was targeting the Eatsa crowd.
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