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HelloFresh also sends marketing snail mail if they have your postal address. The market starts to be crowded and they are obviously aggressively marketing thei

HelloFresh also sends marketing snail mail if they have your postal address. The market starts to be crowded and they are obviously aggressively marketing their product. We'll see if that can last. It's crazy that they got $367 million in total funding for a recipe and ingredients (meal kits) subscription business but they apparently now have 6 billion euros in revenue so it seems to work.

VBprogrammer 3y ago
The service is really good. But very little to differentiate it from any of the other services with the result that when we used it we just swapped between whichever service give us a discounted offer. We could keep it up for months on end without paying the full subscription price.
kevincox 3y ago
The worst part is that (at least in Canada) this isn't illegal. Unsolicited calls, texts and email are illegal but snail mail is fine. It seems that all form of communication should have the same rules, but the laws are special cases. Probably if they start messaging you via WhatsApp that is also fine.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  I don't know about Canada, but in the US, the postal system is subsidized by spam. Essentially spam is the most profitable aspect of the service, and so it's endorsed at the expense of everything else. Since the sender pays costs for postal mail, it's completely different than SMS or emails.
  - kevincox 3y ago
    I'd rather pay a tiny bit more taxes than print and mail spam only to be thrown out without being read. Then shipped to the recycler. What a waste of resources and my time.
ghaff 3y ago
The problem is that you have to commit to basically three meals per week for 2+ people and then opt-out for subsequent weeks, they're not cheap and they're often a reasonable bit of work to prep. I tried Blue Apron once and it was basically too much up-front commitment and too much work. Local grocery stores have an increasingly amount of semi-prepped meals which make a lot more sense for me.

VBprogrammer 3y ago

The service is really good. But very little to differentiate it from any of the other services with the result that when we used it we just swapped between whichever service give us a discounted offer. We could keep it up for months on end without paying the full subscription price.

kevincox 3y ago

The worst part is that (at least in Canada) this isn't illegal. Unsolicited calls, texts and email are illegal but snail mail is fine. It seems that all form of communication should have the same rules, but the laws are special cases. Probably if they start messaging you via WhatsApp that is also fine.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
I don't know about Canada, but in the US, the postal system is subsidized by spam. Essentially spam is the most profitable aspect of the service, and so it's endorsed at the expense of everything else. Since the sender pays costs for postal mail, it's completely different than SMS or emails.
- kevincox 3y ago
  I'd rather pay a tiny bit more taxes than print and mail spam only to be thrown out without being read. Then shipped to the recycler. What a waste of resources and my time.

ghaff 3y ago

The problem is that you have to commit to basically three meals per week for 2+ people and then opt-out for subsequent weeks, they're not cheap and they're often a reasonable bit of work to prep. I tried Blue Apron once and it was basically too much up-front commitment and too much work. Local grocery stores have an increasingly amount of semi-prepped meals which make a lot more sense for me.