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This kind of delivery of a small cheap product is never going to work until the delivery part can be automated. Be that drones or something else. When the produ
by vectorjohn 11y ago
This kind of delivery of a small cheap product is never going to work until the delivery part can be automated. Be that drones or something else. When the product itself costs $3, you can't afford to add much for delivery.
Of course, people with lots of money could pay for it, but "people with lots of money" isn't what makes Starbucks popular. Their drinks, while expensive for coffee, are cheap. Make the drinks $6 and there's just not enough demand there.
Citations needed.
- bradleyjg 11y agoI don't think there's much of a market for a single cup of coffee (though inside the Empire State Building may be the exception that proves the rule), but there are a lot of workplaces where someone makes a coffee run once or twice per day for $20+ each run. Depending on the geography that is a reasonable amount per order to support delivery services. Don't know about the "Future of On-Demand Ordering" though.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoAt that rate you can buy a really nice superautomatic coffee machine, say a Jura Impressa J9 OneTouch, and break even in less than one year. The ROI would be huge; not only are you saving money after just 9 months, you're saving the time of the person doing the coffee run, and people get fresher and better tasting coffee. Whenever they want.
- Retric 11y agoIf a single person can average 30+ delivery's an hour then the numbers change. For a classic example of this think newspaper delivery by a paper boy. I don't think intra building office delivery's rise to that scale, but they are probably fairly low labor when you consider someone can drop off more than one cup on a trip.