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At Hubbub we've never seen that happen. We're working with independent shops who know they're part of a marketplace where they're competing against other grocer
by jon-wood 11y ago
At Hubbub we've never seen that happen. We're working with independent shops who know they're part of a marketplace where they're competing against other grocers, and if they try to palm off their rotting stock on a customer we'll refund it at their expense, and the customer likely won't buy from them again.
- toomanybeersies 11y agoThe quality of produce is not a binary thing though. When you go to the supermarket, there's the rotting produce, there's the premium produce, but then there's also the mediocre produce, which probably takes up 80% of the stock of produce. Now, someone who cares about the quality of their bananas, or specifically wants bananas of a certain ripeness (maybe they want overripe bananas for a cake, or slightly unripe bananas for cooking), can go to a physical store and select the bananas they want. A picker at a warehouse isn't going to do that, I'm sure they'll avoid picking stock that's past it, but that doesn't mean they'll grab the best, or what you want.
- jon-wood 11y agoAt least in our case customers can request the bananas how they want, and the pickers will get exactly what they want. We've had people request and get "an avocado that will be ripe on Wednesday".