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Re:Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US by encoderer on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @03:17PM (#8204015)
Also wasn't WebVan running warehouses? That is so totally different than InstaCart and Google Shopping Express. Your long memory is, IMO, working against you here.

AmazonFresh is doing something along the lines of what WebVan was trying, with the capitalization to make a real go of it.

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Re:Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US by 27182818284 on Thursday August 21, 2014 @10:54PM (#8210701)
>Your long memory is, IMO, working against you here.

What you wrote and what I wrote I don't think conflict at all, so I don't know why you'd say it is working against me. Also I have found references to what I wrote in writing[0] so I'm not completely crazy.

Now, an anecdote that I might screw up because my memory is fuzzy about it, is that the founder of Instacart was given a copy of Webvan's business plan on a floppy as a sort of "Good luck!" token.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step...

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Re:Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US by encoderer on Sunday August 24, 2014 @09:37PM (#8220220)
Sorry, my reply was to GP.
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