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What stands out about this promotion is same-hour delivery. Implementing and scaling even same-day delivery is a serious logistical challenge. It's also quite p
by doktrin 13y ago
What stands out about this promotion is same-hour delivery. Implementing and scaling even same-day delivery is a serious logistical challenge. It's also quite possibly the future of retail.
I guess my standards for 'hacker'-ish are lower. I see a company potentially making an attempt to push the envelope, and that's enough for me.
edit : I was thinking in terms of general retail and not really food. Fair point : 1-hour food delivery is nothing new.
I do sincerely believe some of the counter points could have been made with less vitriol, but the fact remains that I was wrong.
- dangrossman 13y agoWhen I was a little closer to Philadelphia, there were ~150 restaurants taking online orders from my address, and I never had a delivery take over an hour. If same-hour delivery of a small menu is the future of retail, then Wal-Mart must be deathly afraid of Dominos. They were guaranteeing fresh pizza in 30 minutes or less decades ago, nationwide. Same-day? Mumbai's been doing it for over a century, without any modern technology. Over 5,000 dabbawalas deliver over 200,000 hot lunches per day, from the recipients' own home kitchens to their places of work, then return the food containers back home the same afternoon.
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- misterjangles 13y agoIt does because you were trying to insinuate that 1 hour delivery of food is a logistical nightmare. You probably are thinking more along the lines of Amazon.com and shut out of your mind that restaurants have been doing this for decades. Dominos can deliver fresh baked food almost anywhere in the country in 30 minutes. Sometimes it's good to get a little slap that wakes you up out of startup mode.
- eigenvector 13y agoGP is pointing that this challenges appears to have already been solved, quite successfully, by many small non-technological business in many cities. Was it snarky? Yes. But it was also insightful.
- Pacabel 13y agoPointing out that pizza (or other food) delivery is a very well-established practice that's been carried out successfully all across the globe for a very long time isn't being "snarky". He's merely stating the obvious facts that, for some reason, a lot of people here are totally overlooking when they think that this idea is somehow "innovative".
- mikeash 13y agoIt may not add to the discussion, but at least it stops people from subtracting from it by talking about one-hour food delivery as something remarkable.
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- nols 13y agoPizza places have been delivering like this (made to order in fact) for decades