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Hey here's one of my ideas thrown to HN crowd: Subscription for perishables i.e bread, meat, eggs, fruits and veggies - You shouldn't actually buy things you b

• awqrre 11y ago
  here's another idea: 1. Create a grocery list online, 2. pickup packaged ready-to-go order at local warehouse
  • MarkyC4 11y ago
    This is the "click and collect" model. For example: http://shop.loblaws.ca http://shop.loblaws.ca
• Symbiote 11y ago
  This is an extremely old idea, and used to be normal for things like bread, milk and eggs in much of Europe, America etc. There are some extracts from historical texts here [1], with accounts of delivered milk in the 1790s. You can still get milk and some dairy products delivered in a few places in the UK. My parents had milk delivered until about 2005. More recently, a "veg box" is a box of vegetables: https://www.abelandcole.co.uk/ https://www.abelandcole.co.uk/ [1] http://susannaives.com/wordpress/2012/03/buying-bread-and-milk-in-18th-and-19th-century-london/ http://susannaives.com/wordpress/2012/03/buying-bread-and-mi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkman