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Whole Foods themselves do home delivery. Amazon do not.
by urethrafranklin 9y ago
Whole Foods themselves do home delivery. Amazon do not.
- dragonwriter 9y agoAmazon Prime Fresh is a thing; they absolutely do home delivery.
- urethrafranklin 9y agoThe delivery is outsourced and not handled directly by Amazon.
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- detaro 9y agoWhy is it relevant if the delivery is done by contractors of some kind or by the company directly? Amazon probably even has closer control over their network than WF over Instacart, which isn't exclusive to them.
- aeorgnoieang 9y agoIsn't this is true of (almost) everything else Amazon sells too? [I'm ignoring AWS and other products or services that don't need to be physically delivered.]
- jonknee 9y agoTechnically Whole Foods does not themselves do delivery (it's Instacart), while Amazon actually does (Fresh)... Amazon's also working on grocery pickup, which seems perfect for meal kits.
- urethrafranklin 9y agoOkay, looks like that is true today, but Whole Foods was doing home delivery before Instacart even existed, at least in NYC. Amazon Fresh outsources their actual delivery, as well, so no points for that one.
- ghaff 9y agoCambridge as well. Grocers that cater to a lot of customers who walk to the store have been delivering since before there was an Internet.
- jonknee 9y ago> Amazon Fresh outsources their actual delivery, as well, so no points for that one. In my neighborhood there's an Amazon delivery truck that drops off Amazon bags by people who have Amazon uniforms on... Perhaps they're 1099, but for all intents and purposes it is Amazon doing the delivery.