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It certainly does make sense if you're looking at places with expensive property, like London. A supermarket takes up a huge area, and usually in areas where la
by toomanybeersies 11y ago
It certainly does make sense if you're looking at places with expensive property, like London. A supermarket takes up a huge area, and usually in areas where land tends to be expensive. Nobody wants to go to a supermarket in the middle of nowhere.
I think that's where online supermarkets are going to win out over conventional supermarkets.
Personally, I prefer to go to supermarkets than shop online, even if it was cheaper, I'd still probably go to the supermarket, but that's usually because I decide what I want to cook for tea on the way home from work, so I'll stop by the supermarket and grab some stuff, I enjoy the experience.
- tfgg 11y ago> A supermarket takes up a huge area, and usually in areas where land tends to be expensive I think this is a particularly good point about their success, especially in London. In London, there aren't really many huge supermarkets (the closest one to me is about 5km away through dense built-up areas), and most people don't own cars. Hence, if you want to do a big shop, online delivery is pretty much the only way.
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- SideburnsOfDoom 11y agoYep. even when I pass by a big supermarket (it is on my way home near the tube station), bulky items and lots of items are difficult when travelling on foot & crowded bus.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat's an interesting counterpoint. I haven't investigated how successful companies are in U.S. if specializing only in those areas. However, they have to have economy of scale to get low prices on stuff people want. Or buy from groups like Costco as Google is with further markup. So, there's potential there but a lot of risk, too. Need more data on such things.