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I don't understand this product at all. If you're willing to buy a pack of prepared juice, why not just buy a bottle of juice instead?
by tdeck 10y ago
I don't understand this product at all. If you're willing to buy a pack of prepared juice, why not just buy a bottle of juice instead?
- DiffEq 10y agoLike a V8...this product is for hipsters.
- spitfire 10y agoWealth signalling I presume. The bottle of juice wouldn't let you discard a capri-sun package full of squeeze fruit husks. This lets people know you're wealthy enough to not care about excess.
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- makomk 10y agoYeah, as far as I could tell this is more expensive, less convenient, and harder to obtain than juice bottles, takes up more space, and the consumables have about the same shelf life or shorter. Bizarre product. (Also, since it requires an internet connection to check if the juice packs are valid, if the internet goes down and you decide that's a good time to take a juice break...)
- kozak 10y agoTo be fair, that "internet goes down" aspect can be mitigated in software by pushing IDs of the packages that were ordered for your account to the machine as soon as they are known.
- nisse72 10y agoWhy not simply encode the expiry date itself into the qr codes, then just decode that using software on the device. Even better, stamp a human readable date on the package like every other grocery product. Oh but then they couldn't track your usage and juicing habits! And you'd have to be able to read or something.
- ghaff 10y agoFurthermore, I admittedly mostly use fruit but tossing what I need into a blender is not a big deal. A lot of what you need is in the supermarket freezer section these days. And if that's too much work, there are (of course) smoothie ingredient subscription services. https://www.wellandgood.com/good-food/daily-harvest-vs-green-blender-how-two-new-smoothie-delivery-companies-measure-up/ https://www.wellandgood.com/good-food/daily-harvest-vs-green...
- bgutierrez 10y agoI read that vitamins in juice break down over time rather quickly. Juicero is supposed to be as fresh as possible, and therefore be nutritious and taste better than anything in a bottle. I can't speak to the actual differences, though. I'm not really a juice person unless rum or tequila is involved.
- doubleunplussed 10y agoSure, their juice is fresh, so it's better than most non fresh bottled juice. But you can buy bottles of fresh juice. It goes bad fast, but so do these bags of juice. I'm really not seeing how this product is anything but a con to take advantage of people who don't realise that a well marketed solution isn't necessarily better than what you already had.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoI can't imagine finely chopped/pulverized fruits/veggies lose vitiman content any slower than juiced fruits/veggies.
- thisisdave 10y agoThey claimed (or at least implied) that you'd be buying something closer to raw hunks of fruit and vegetables in the bag, so it would be fresh.