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I suspect a barrier to growth for this company is just that lots of people don't even know such a thing is legal. I'm astonished to find out that my hometown B

I suspect a barrier to growth for this company is just that lots of people don't even know such a thing is legal. I'm astonished to find out that my hometown Boston allows it, and apparently that's where Drizly started up.

alaskamiller 10y ago
Lol, tons of people know about this or want this. Unlike food, alcohol and marijuana or flowers are the only local delivery products that have wide enough margins to fund the logistics of that pesky ~$7 fixed labor cost. Fetching a $8 dollar burrito that ends up being $15 is just silly. Back in the dot com days you would just call up Kozmo (the original Postmates) to deliver you whatever booze you want. Most high volume shops in a major metro area offer delivery. San Francisco has dozens, just yelp it. On top of that there are ten copycats already, each covering different markets. They all offer the same app experience, they all work similar vendors. The only differentiator is marketing and branding. They're all vying for the same oxygen to burn until they run out of cash. And since the tech is commoditized down to just a few grand to build out, there's no intrinsic value, team value, product value, or any value if they don't make it. What's been tough has alcohol by mail, which indeed is illegal in many states and is highly legislated. Turns out the USPS as the platform model is only workable for candy in a subscription box or underwear in a subscription box.
- petra 10y ago
  >> pesky $7/hr labor. Well the end goal of this should be a central warehouse(maybe run FBA style, maybe even hired on demand,inc. fullfilment from someone ) , and instead of ordering being on-demand, set up time windows, each at a certain area, enabling optimized routes(and on top of that network do on-demand orders). That should reduce costs to minimum and build a somewhat defensible business(unless Amazon attacks). And having a lot of customers will be helpful in achieving those goals, so what we're seeing is just step 1.
  - alaskamiller 10y ago
    No, the end goal is a box with wheels or a drone. What you described is called a store. Also, US is behind the curve. In China the practice is called O2O--online to offline. Buy anything you want and the closest inventoried item near you gets to you.
    - maxander 10y ago
      Wait, so this is what those silly amazon "Prime Air" delivery drones were really about. It makes sense now! I wonder whats holding up the final reveal of the flying booze\weed delivery shop.
      - alaskamiller 10y ago
        The future is shining so bright

alaskamiller 10y ago

Lol, tons of people know about this or want this. Unlike food, alcohol and marijuana or flowers are the only local delivery products that have wide enough margins to fund the logistics of that pesky ~$7 fixed labor cost. Fetching a $8 dollar burrito that ends up being $15 is just silly. Back in the dot com days you would just call up Kozmo (the original Postmates) to deliver you whatever booze you want. Most high volume shops in a major metro area offer delivery. San Francisco has dozens, just yelp it. On top of that there are ten copycats already, each covering different markets. They all offer the same app experience, they all work similar vendors. The only differentiator is marketing and branding. They're all vying for the same oxygen to burn until they run out of cash. And since the tech is commoditized down to just a few grand to build out, there's no intrinsic value, team value, product value, or any value if they don't make it. What's been tough has alcohol by mail, which indeed is illegal in many states and is highly legislated. Turns out the USPS as the platform model is only workable for candy in a subscription box or underwear in a subscription box.

petra 10y ago
>> pesky $7/hr labor. Well the end goal of this should be a central warehouse(maybe run FBA style, maybe even hired on demand,inc. fullfilment from someone ) , and instead of ordering being on-demand, set up time windows, each at a certain area, enabling optimized routes(and on top of that network do on-demand orders). That should reduce costs to minimum and build a somewhat defensible business(unless Amazon attacks). And having a lot of customers will be helpful in achieving those goals, so what we're seeing is just step 1.
- alaskamiller 10y ago
  No, the end goal is a box with wheels or a drone. What you described is called a store. Also, US is behind the curve. In China the practice is called O2O--online to offline. Buy anything you want and the closest inventoried item near you gets to you.
  - maxander 10y ago
    Wait, so this is what those silly amazon "Prime Air" delivery drones were really about. It makes sense now! I wonder whats holding up the final reveal of the flying booze\weed delivery shop.
    - alaskamiller 10y ago
      The future is shining so bright