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The meteoric rise and ongoing demise of Blue Apron (2019)

• BostonEnginerd 5y ago
  I really enjoyed my time as a Blue Apron customer, but the sheer amount of packaging that I threw out made us stop. Very little of it was recyclable.
  • lm28469 5y ago
    That's one of my takes too, you gain 10% of convenience but everything else is either as good or worse (more packaging, more expensive, delivery issues) than simply buying your own stuff. I also feel that it's not something for which we need a service, at that rate we'll have a butt wiping startup by 2050
• itisit 5y ago
  > But sometimes, you realize you just don't like to cook. Simple as that, really. Convenience always wins. Cooking is easiest when someone else does it for you.
• nserrino 5y ago
  For me, the issue was that the recipes took too long. The huge amounts of packaging didn’t help, either. It was way too much work overall.
• g42gregory 5y ago
  We used them as well. I did not feel that the quality of the ingredients was particularly high. In the long run, we ended up using Good Eggs mostly.