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"Take Instacart: I pay $100/year for unlimited grocery delivery? Which I'm doing once per week, so that's < $2 per delivery. To deliver this service takes the I
by biggc 11y ago
"Take Instacart: I pay $100/year for unlimited grocery delivery? Which I'm doing once per week, so that's < $2 per delivery. To deliver this service takes the Instacart shopper/driver at least 30 minutes, probably closer to 60. Assuming a $15/hour wage to the driver, that's $13 of loss per order. Which, again, I'm doing 50+ times per year."
Except Instacart marks up most items on their website, so it's not really $2 per order (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/technology/personaltech/online-grocery-start-up-takes-page-from-sharing-services.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/technology/personaltech/on...)
- mkolodny 11y agoMost items on Instacart cost the same as they do in the stores. They tell you whether prices are the same as in-store prices on a store by store basis. In NYC, only Costco items are marked up, while items from everywhere else (Fairway, Whole Foods, PetcoNow, and Breads Bakery) aren't market up.
- finnh 11y agoExcept they don't for the store in question, as stated in the very next sentence of my post: "And, at the store I order from, prices are exactly the same as in-store so there's not much (if any?) profit they could be extracting on that side." citation: http://www.centralcoop.coop/page.php?PID=1042 http://www.centralcoop.coop/page.php?PID=1042