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Re:America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies sti... by Spivak on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:25PM (#23171413)
But you run into the same issues mostly because Kroger's delivery service is "just as 3rd-party" as Instacart. It's still an employee going through your store, grabbing stuff off the shelves and delivering them to you. There's basically zero first-party advantage.
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Re:America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies sti... by jschwartzi on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:40PM (#23174210)
Yeah, this is exactly what it was. We used a Kroger store because they had a much better selection than Safeway and in the end didn't really get what we wanted. At the time I had guessed it was because the 3rd-party picker didn't know where some of the items were and didn't have time to go looking for them.
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Re:America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies sti... by Apocryphon on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:28PM (#23171453)
At least the in-house grocers are more familiar with the layout and product offerings. From a process perspective, couldn't supermarkets process the delivery orders during stocking?
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