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To be fair, Phoenix is also in the middle of nowhere. There's a decent sized city a few hours to the south, a big city a few hours to the west and a few hours t
by apocalyptic0n3 11y ago
To be fair, Phoenix is also in the middle of nowhere. There's a decent sized city a few hours to the south, a big city a few hours to the west and a few hours to the east, and a somewhat decent sized city a few hours to the north but that's it. Mostly desert surrounds us. Our airport is among the busiest in the world. We have zero usable water access. I imagine getting stock into Phoenix is slightly more difficult than LA or Austin or Seattle or, well, anywhere.
- tracker1 11y agoKroger, Walmart, and a number of others seem to manage supply lines to/from Phoenix just fine... there's also a major Amazon hub here in Phoenix. There are several million people in the phoenix area, it's not like we don't have grocery stores, some better stocked with produce than others... not to mention some of the better stocked places tend to have a price premium, which would fit better with the Amazon model. Ordering groceries isn't, for the most part, about lack of localized options, it's about convenience and time saving. In Tempe, I can order just about any kind of food nearly 24/7... That's prepared food. I honestly feel that Uber will likely win this battle, as they'll probably source shopping and delivery tasks out of existing infrastructure. That can deliver a solution to more areas with less friction... and for that matter less competition and resistance as they do with ride sharing. I don't know why nobody has started an Uber for deliveries on a larger scale... there are lots of localized/shared delivery services out there, but nothing widespread or relatively universal.