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In the UK it's pretty mainstream (depending how you define that, but more than 12% of grocery sales are online) -- and it's done by the existing supermarket cha
by pm215 4y ago
In the UK it's pretty mainstream (depending how you define that, but more than 12% of grocery sales are online) -- and it's done by the existing supermarket chains, mostly.
- ghaff 4y agoI assume the US is a lot less. (Which makes sense because the US is a lot more spread out and, I assume, more people own cars.) Around where I live there is one service owned by a local supermarket chain plus, mostly, Instacart. I have heard it's bigger in the UK in general. It actually feels like one of those activities were doing more of during the pandemic but pretty much reset on.
- pedrocr 4y agoEveryone is missing the actual point of the quote. The UK is at the top end in terms of online penetration in grocery and even there it's true that there's "no way to compete with supermarket efficiencies". Grocery retail stores are really efficient logistically. No one in the industry has truly cracked the problem of selling profitably online because of that. It's the same players doing physical stores and online because they're cross-subsidizing.