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A tangent - but I live in Jakarta, Indonesia. Here around 2 years ago a local motorbike ride-sharing startup called Gojek so ago switched on a service called go
by ian0 9y ago
A tangent - but I live in Jakarta, Indonesia. Here around 2 years ago a local motorbike ride-sharing startup called Gojek so ago switched on a service called go-food. There legion of drivers would now pick up any food from any restaurant you wanted and drop it to you.
It killed most food delivery startups within a few weeks, they have since expanded the service to allow pickup of pretty much anything. Supermarkets, convenience stores, toyshops, pharmacies, pet-shops, hardware. Theres even a generic option to buy "something" from a shop at "address".
Its pretty easy to look at this and think this is the end-game in developed countries too. For at least those purchases where convenience and timing is a factor and cost not as much. All these disparate products are actually a very similar UX and solving the same problem.
Regular grocery shopping behaviour (or the startups running deliveries) hasn't been much effected, presumably as its a more bespoke use case.
- foobiekr 9y agoIn the dotcom there was a famous example of arbitrary shopping-deliver-as-a-service called Kozmo.com. The problem in western countries is that the wages for delivery cannot possibly work for the way people use such services. It's not even clear this will work well for restaurants outside of specific affluent areas.