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Strategy for consumers: Use Instacart until they run out of investors' money or raise their prices. Then use competitor when they are funded and repeat taking
by specialp 12y ago
Strategy for consumers: Use Instacart until they run out of investors' money or raise their prices. Then use competitor when they are funded and repeat taking advantage of loss making enterprises. Once bubble is popped, go to the store yourself.
- smacktoward 12y agoAssuming the local store still exists by then.
- gambiting 12y agoAs far as I understand, those delivery services still do all their shopping locally, to avoid renting warehouses and dealing with suppliers. So basically - a courier gets the order, goes to a nearest shop, buys all grocery, and delivers it. If anything, the local shops win in this scenario.
- makomk 12y agoI'm sure they'd be able to find some way to accidentally take the local stores they relied on with them when they go; local businesses aren't cynical enough to deal with Silicon Valley shadyness. (Remember Groupon and the wave of business failures it created? The same or worse could happen to stores if Instacart goes bankrupt and never pays for the last n weeks/months of purchases.)