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I would love if someone could run me some numbers. What is a realistic price for delivery of groceries where employee and business are both happy? 10 bucks per
by danielbln 4y ago
I would love if someone could run me some numbers. What is a realistic price for delivery of groceries where employee and business are both happy? 10 bucks per delivery? 20? Right now most of these rapid delivery services charge some crazy low fee, like under 2 bucks, and of course that doesn't work in the long run. But what is a real price for delivery?
- Elinvynia 4y agoWhatever the living wage is for that area. Business would be happy with literal slaves. Thus, their opinion should never matter.
- daveoc64 4y agoI don't know a lot about the business, but Zapp says its delivery people are employees. If a supermarket can be profitable while it employs people to stack the shelves, man the checkouts etc., why can't you just move those people out into the neighborhood as delivery people?
- ghaff 4y agoPeapod has been around since pre-Web 1.0 in the US. It's owned by a grocery chain which probably changes the economics somewhat. But they charge a $10 base price (non rapid delivery) so I assume at least the breakeven for a fairly low overhead business is somewhere in that range. Hannaford's pickup service is $5--which COVID aside seems like it would be mostly useful only in specific cases.