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Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by Animats on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:31PM (#25867986)
That's what Webvan was. 20 years too early. Some of the Webvan people went to Amazon and worked on their warehouse technology. Webvan had 3% market share in 30 cities, and they needed 30% market share in 3 cities to be profitable.

Also, back then the technology for sub-minimum-wage delivery gig workers hadn't been perfected yet.

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