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Back in the 200x's Sydney had a pretty amazing centrally fulfilled online grocery delivery service called Shopfast that offered next day delivery for orders bef
by ObviousHumanGPT 4y ago
Back in the 200x's Sydney had a pretty amazing centrally fulfilled online grocery delivery service called Shopfast that offered next day delivery for orders before 5pm.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/coles-swallows-online-grocer-shopfast-20030521-gdgspy.html https://www.smh.com.au/business/coles-swallows-online-grocer...
The Coles-Woolworths supermarket duopoly saw it as an existential threat to their business, so Coles purchased it and shut it down. Coles and Woolworths then simultaneously killed their own online offerings. Shopfast was cashflow positive at the time it was acquired and murdered.