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"Instacart simply takes customers' $10 or larger orders, sends a staff shopper to a local merchant to load up on fruits, vegetables, meats, and the like, and th
by fourmii 14y ago
"Instacart simply takes customers' $10 or larger orders, sends a staff shopper to a local merchant to load up on fruits, vegetables, meats, and the like, and then delivers them." How are they going to scale this? Sounds like it would require a huge workforce in each of their markets. And what about the grocery chains' delivery services like Peapod?
- steve8918 14y agoIf they wanted to scale, they would need to make deals with the grocery stores to pack the groceries, or have their own food depots so that the delivery people wouldn't have to waste to packing groceries.