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Re:Someday, A Tiny Subway Will Deliver Your Groceries by aka- on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @09:50AM (#758048)
Yes. Online grocery shopping with dedicated delivery services is huge here (in the UK). Imagine how much bigger it would be when you could order stuff in much smaller batches at more regular intervals? Loaf of bread and a pint of milk to home at 7am, and a sandwich to your office at 1pm?

If you include the postal system and all those little trips people make, we are moving stuff between various hubs and houses several times a day anyway, often with dedicated trips using our hugely inefficient, slow and polluting vehicles. We could really get the eco crowd onside with this one.

Re:Someday, A Tiny Subway Will Deliver Your Groceries by jodrellblank on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @10:55AM (#758218)
and a sandwich to your office at 1pm?

http://twitter.com/deliciouslunch did that for a few weeks, on a local scale. Tweet to them in the morning, have a sandwich delivered same day.

They stopped pretty quickly - but it looks like they might have plans to resume one day.