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Here in Europe, we have a spiritual predecessor of Webvan, called Picnic. > https://picnic.app https://picnic.app It's a “supermarket on wheels”. Every city h
by janandonly 3y ago
Here in Europe, we have a spiritual predecessor of Webvan, called Picnic.
> https://picnic.app https://picnic.app
It's a “supermarket on wheels”. Every city has a distribution point and small electric cars bring the groceries to your front door at a time of your choosing.
After the launch of Picnic, the other players had to catch up by starting their delivery services.
- janandonly 3y agoNot predecessor. But offspring.
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- cjrp 3y agoTesco in the UK have been doing their own grocery deliveries since at least 2008. It feels like one of those things that makes sense for the grocery store to provide themselves (or use a white-labelled solution like Ocado), because they don't have to entirely make their profit from the delivery fee or marking up prices.
- shawabawa3 3y agoI find it absurd that the US solution to this is instacart, where some random guy just walks around a shop picking up items on a list, it's madness In the UK all major supermarkets do their own delivery, where at least parts of it can be automated
- JohnFen 3y agoMany of the larger supermarkets in my part of the US have their own grocery delivery service, for what it's worth.