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Curious why you think it is inevitable? The convenience of having the whole city available for delivery for consumers, and for restaurants to have access to a b
by hackernewds 4y ago
Curious why you think it is inevitable? The convenience of having the whole city available for delivery for consumers, and for restaurants to have access to a broad base of on-demand drivers and these customers, seems like an intractable modern day invention.
- datavirtue 4y agoIt's not. This was working in Columbus Ohio since at least the 1990s...and probably elsewhere and for longer. Just didn't have an app.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoIndividual delivery is different and it's here to stay A centralised "we pick your food for you"? Unlikely
- starfallg 4y agoThe issue isn't the delivery, we've always had local food delivery and it's a subsidised bundled service to sell the main product. The issue is whether they can run a tech company off the margins of delivery, where they take the risk setting the physical infrastructure to do delivery, but have little to no control over the actual restaurants providing the products.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoRecession means less money available for a luxury service like delivering your food. The cost right now is subsidised by VCs to get everyone to switch. With the incoming recessions VC will spend less money, especially on a business model which doesn't feel novel anymore.