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My vote is firmly in the "too soon" category. As evidence: I can get a 35 pound bag of dog food delivered to my house in about an hour via Amazon Prime Now. Th
by michaelbuckbee 9y ago
My vote is firmly in the "too soon" category.
As evidence: I can get a 35 pound bag of dog food delivered to my house in about an hour via Amazon Prime Now. That's basically both WebVan's and Pets.com business model but on the back of Amazon's logistics ecosystem.
What makes this work is both that it's not 2001: both in that there are significantly more Internet users, they have higher speed connections, and they're much more comfortable with online purchases.
- fapjacks 9y agoTotally this. I lived with my aunt in the bay area back when webvan.com was hot, and I remember a time when the two of us saw a commercial of theirs. I remember saying how great of an idea it was, that it could really take off, and I distinctly remember my aunt -- not a very prolific internet user but not a luddite by any means -- saying that it was weird buying groceries online. That really stuck with me, because my aunt is/was the kind of person to try something like that, but even she wasn't comfortable with it. Plus also webvan.com blew a billion dollars building a delivery infrastructure that they couldn't support.