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Re:Would subscription based grocery ever work? by askmany on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:39AM (#36631582)
Yeah basically what subscription model would do is , that it would cut down on advertisement expenses and that expense saved could be given out to customers.
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Re:Would subscription based grocery ever work? by PaulHoule on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:45AM (#36631674)
People in my town started this company

https://www.rosieapp.com/

which got bought by instacart that applied recommendation technology to automatically fill out orders for grocery, the idea is that the problem of filling up a complete order for a week worth of groceries is hard online. In our area it was backed by an independent grocery store that serves as a kind of “startup accelerator” for food-related business.

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Re:Would subscription based grocery ever work? by askmany on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:08AM (#36632013)
its more like an e-commerce website builder
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Re:Would subscription based grocery ever work? by PaulHoule on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:13AM (#36632957)
For a very complex case! That is, a supermarket has thousands of products, prices changing all the time, complex promotions, and potentially orders with 20-50 products in them!
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