Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B

Re:Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B by marcosdumay on Thursday May 05, 2022 @11:27AM (#31274580)

Once you put the infrastructure (airplanes capacity, delivery cars, processing centers, etc) to do next-day deliveries in place, in a lot of places you don't have enough scale to saturate it, so it's more efficient to run everything over it than to use something else.

This is a very normal thing in logistics. I imagine on the places where there is enough scale, they do offer discounts for slower options.

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Re:Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B by hammock on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:17PM (#31276063)

Reminds me of conventional vs organic milk. Organic milk was far more expensive and in short supply for so long, related to conversion costs for conventional dairy farms. However once McDonalds switched to organic milk, it became cost effective for most dairies to switch over to organic.

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