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All my nearby stores offer this, I still use Instacart. It lets me shop from any store, their QC is amazing, and living in a small apartment I need to make 2 or
by pj_mukh 10y ago
All my nearby stores offer this, I still use Instacart. It lets me shop from any store, their QC is amazing, and living in a small apartment I need to make 2 or 3 $35 trips (instead of one big $150 trip) and that becomes free on Instacart (saving me close to 5hrs per week of drudgery).
- Shivetya 10y agoI really don't see that as sustainable for them. The fifteen percent they mention on $35 is not very much to work with. I understand buying market share but all of these services seem to follow the same route, incredible lead in pricing and then trying to find out how to raise it without driving everyone to another solution. grocery stores usually can pull this off as they tend to have pharmacies they want you to use and other services
- ghaff 10y agoThe problem with so many of these, what are effectively, personal services going back to the dot-com bubble is that they're effectively luxury goods for most people. And unless they actually need them for some reason (lack of mobility, don't have a car, etc.) most people don't buy a lot of unsubsidized personal services. They don't have gardeners, lawn care, drivers, etc. Some do but it can be hard to build a business out of just them.