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Online grocery shopping is more developed in the UK than any other major market. A large part of it is the London effect where you have a large number of middle
by ig1 14y ago
Online grocery shopping is more developed in the UK than any other major market. A large part of it is the London effect where you have a large number of middle-class shoppers who don't have cars in close proximity to each other, that makes the economics vastly better for the supermarkets.
- dalke 14y agoPerhaps, though I know Oxford also has home delivery so it's not just London. I've not understood how Oxford could have it but San Francisco doesn't.
- arkem 14y agoSafeway has done home delivery since at least March, so it's not an unknown service here in the US.
- jon-wood 14y agoThat's true to an extent, but I've also had deliveries from supermarkets in incredibly rural areas whilst on holiday, once to a farmhouse which was so remote you couldn't see any of the neighbours.
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