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Yes and no. While staples of pantry items may be same or similar on a week to week basis, epicurean palates of many shoppers shift from week to week to embrace
by WhatDFHere 3y ago
Yes and no. While staples of pantry items may be same or similar on a week to week basis, epicurean palates of many shoppers shift from week to week to embrace different recipes, diets and exploratory dishes for breakfast/lunch/dinner. What the balance of these unique ingredients pose impacts a subscription model. Coupled with most shoppers like to have the opportunity to pick the item(s) themselves which often times services like Amazon Fresh, Instacart, etc. do not yet do well. Finally, certain pantry items have various shelf and use life spans. Perhaps with an AI shopping tool, based on an individual's or family's needs this could be more efficient and profitable.
- mtmail 3y agoEven laundry detergent usage differs and that's something with no expiry date (I think). Amazon tried to counter that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash , a button you press triggering an order. "On March 1, 2019, Amazon discontinued the series, claiming that it was made unnecessary due to automatic reordering and product subscriptions."
- askmany 3y agoyeah that is why i said "it. does not work" , but my question is can it ever work in the future ?
- PaulHoule 3y agoMy wife would emphasize this: if you are shopping for produce you want to choose products that are good quality on a given day and individual instances of those products that are better than average. If somebody else is picking there are agency problems. Now we do have the problem that we struggle to find the time for grocery trips (ag work keeps my wife busy from sunrise to sundown.) Seems to me that a highly personalized delivery service backed by a full-service grocery that links your in-store experience to deliveries that you get could be a good idea, with regular deliveries approximating a “subscription” the economics would improve, overhead for $300 of groceries would not be much more than $30 and in our case we could tolerate deliveries coming in at a time that is cost-effective for the supermarket.
- askmany 3y agoYeah basically what subscription model would do is , that it would cut down on advertisement expenses and that expense saved could be given out to customers.
- PaulHoule 3y agoPeople in my town started this company https://www.rosieapp.com/ https://www.rosieapp.com/ which got bought by instacart that applied recommendation technology to automatically fill out orders for grocery, the idea is that the problem of filling up a complete order for a week worth of groceries is hard online. In our area it was backed by an independent grocery store that serves as a kind of “startup accelerator” for food-related business.