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Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by mdergosits »

jerkstate wrote: post #52
mawburn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OK with paying a non-trivial premium to have a lot of menu planning and shopping be handled by someone else This is the one I've never been able to get past. For what these services cost, I can have someone else prepare my meal that will taste just as good or better. Why would I not do that? I get if you're trying to learn to cook or something like that, but that only sounds like a temporary problem.

$10 per serving is essentially fast food prices in the bay area - you can't really get a healthy meal with meat and vegetables. My family used Blue Apron for a while when we first had kids, and it was great for our lifestyle. We did move on to a service that optimizes grocery shopping so we can buy ingredients for a week's worth of meals in one shopping trip. Edit: for those who asked, I am using thefresh20 now. It's…

I cook meals in SF most nights for way less than $20 for 2 people without trying, meat or seafood and veggies.

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by dragonwriter »

taude wrote: post #40
chad_strategic wrote: post #6

After 10 years of marriage, my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old. We used Blue Apron as the starting point. I can't tell you how much time we save in planning meals and trips to the store. My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner. The quality of the food and the time saved is well worth the price. I know the…

I thought the Blue Apron recipes were too complicated, used too many pans to wash, and wasted too much packaging material. I found no time savings when was all said and done. I have an easy enough time following recipes from books like America's Test Kitchen cooking for two [1], etc, and spending 10 or 15 minutes planning meals each week. Plus, I probably spend quite a bit less, and if I meal plan correctly, I'll do…

> I thought the Blue Apron recipes were too complicated, used too many pans to wash, and wasted too much packaging material.

I've rarely seen a BA recipe use more than one pot and one pan, most, IME, use a single pan (often with a wipe-and-reuse step to do that.)

If anything, BA goes out of their way to minimize the required cooking vessels compared to most recipe sources (even America’s Test Kitchen, which is actually pretty good about not gratuitously using cookware.)

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by behringer »

zwieback wrote: post #60
ngngngng wrote: post #53

I feel like grocery stores could easily compete with blue apron for much lower costs. Just ration the food they already have in stock in little packages. Charge a little more than you would otherwise for the employees time picking recipes and combining them into the packages. I would happily use this service at local grocery stores. But compared to grocery stores and cooking from scratch blue apron is too expensive f…

Agree and it's already happening. At the higher-end stores where I live there are a whole bunch of meal-kit options when you enter the store.

Yeah at my store they have prepackaged sides and preseasoned meats, you just stick it in the oven really.

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by chad_strategic »

Pfhreak wrote: post #18
chad_strategic wrote: post #6

After 10 years of marriage, my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old. We used Blue Apron as the starting point. I can't tell you how much time we save in planning meals and trips to the store. My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner. The quality of the food and the time saved is well worth the price. I know the…

> my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old. This seems like a good opportunity to see if there is more labor (emotional or physical) that your wife is doing that she could use a hand with. > My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner Meal planning is work. She is doing a job for the family. She is trying to includ…

There is a little more to the story, I just shortened the story for the sake of brevity. Cause technically I'm supposed be working on an API issue.

I value all my wife does around the house and for the family.

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by sctb »

_zachs wrote: post #23
Pfhreak wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old. This seems like a good opportunity to see if there is more labor (emotional or physical) that your wife is doing that she could use a hand with. > My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner Meal planning is work. She is doing a job for the family. She is trying to includ…

damn dude you really are a Pfhreak.

Please don't do this here.

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by joshstrange »

chad_strategic wrote: post #6

After 10 years of marriage, my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old. We used Blue Apron as the starting point. I can't tell you how much time we save in planning meals and trips to the store. My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner. The quality of the food and the time saved is well worth the price. I know the…

> After 10 years of marriage, my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old.

After 10 years of marriage your wife had to be the one to bring up that you should probably be helping with basis household chores??

> I can't tell you how much time we save in planning meals and trips to the store.

Is it because you haven't really saved the time? Also People VASTLY overestimate the value of their time in my experience. And they also VASTLY overestimate how much time it takes to plan and shop.

> My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner.

Well if your opening line didn't cement my opinion for me this one did. As the person who plans meals in my household let me let you in on a little secret. She ASKS you what you want because she wants to make you happy and/or wants you to like what she makes. You've placed her in a no-win situation, if she asks you what you want she is nagging but if she doesn't and you don't like the food she also feels bad. The fact that you call it "nagging" is just crazy, wow, the nerve of your wife wasting all of your valuable time trying to make you happy. What a bitch. (/s if that was PAINFULLY obvious)

> The quality of the food and the time saved is well worth the price.

False

> I know there are some disadvantages about Blue Apron such as waste, carbon food print etc...

How nice of you to throw in a one line disclaimer, I'm sorry but that's not enough and undersells the horrible underbelly of this industry.

> Out of 100 meals I would say that we only had maybe one that was mediocre.

I don't believe this for 1 second.

> I suspect Blue Apron will survive as it will probably be taken over or bought out. It's kinda the leader of the pack and the market will eventually consolidate.

Oh, can't wait for them to consolidate and raise their prices up to realistic levels. If you think their prices are high now I can't wait to see what you think about their prices when they've killed off or merged with all their competition. Investors aren't going to subsidize it for forever.

> It also helps that I might have helped I bought about $1000 discounted gift cards at Costco.

What does this even mean??

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by cflewis »

chad_strategic wrote: post #6

After 10 years of marriage, my wife thought it would be helpful for me to start cooking, as she was getting stressed out with our 2 years old. We used Blue Apron as the starting point. I can't tell you how much time we save in planning meals and trips to the store. My wife doesn't have nag me about what I what I want for the week's dinner. The quality of the food and the time saved is well worth the price. I know the…

I think Blue Apron recipes are generally too fancy: check out Sun Basket. I like them more, and they are pretty good on the timings (if it says 20 mins, it's actually 20 mins).

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Post by pfranz »

tigershark wrote: post #58
Pfhreak wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use a similar service that's closer to a CSA + recipe cards. We get a basic recipe and a bunch of raw veggies/locally produced products. Meal planning is work. Grocery shopping is work. Cooking is work. We've decided that cooking is the work we enjoy, and the other parts are work we'd rather pay someone to do for us. We are more than capable of putting together a meal plan, we just value our time more than money a…

I’m really surprised... you don’t have any online grocery shopping in US? I have been buying groceries only online for years and I wouldn’t definitely call work to click a couple times more on the ingredients that you need for some meal. If you are particularly lazy you can even create shopping lists for every meal that you need and add all of them with a click.

What countries have widespread online grocery shopping? I've seen it advertised a bit in the US (more and more recently), but haven't seen it gain a strong foothold yet. I've had some friends that used Amazon Fresh. I've used it once or twice, but wasn't confident it was price competitive and also didn't want to wait the day or two when I could just pick it up for dinner tonight. For me it's just an expectation and familiarity thing (I get confused about all the Amazon services and forget that most of them exist).

I've heard some people talk about why grocery delivery "won't work" in the US. There's a huge last-mile problem. For the first few years, Blue Apron was northern east-coast, then west-coast only. It took awhile to get most states covered. Another argument I've heard is that people like to pick their food. They're worried they'll get stuck with blemished/bruised food.

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by axxl »

jerkstate wrote: post #52
mawburn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OK with paying a non-trivial premium to have a lot of menu planning and shopping be handled by someone else This is the one I've never been able to get past. For what these services cost, I can have someone else prepare my meal that will taste just as good or better. Why would I not do that? I get if you're trying to learn to cook or something like that, but that only sounds like a temporary problem.

$10 per serving is essentially fast food prices in the bay area - you can't really get a healthy meal with meat and vegetables. My family used Blue Apron for a while when we first had kids, and it was great for our lifestyle. We did move on to a service that optimizes grocery shopping so we can buy ingredients for a week's worth of meals in one shopping trip. Edit: for those who asked, I am using thefresh20 now. It's…

What service is that?

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by iaresee »

jerkstate wrote: post #52
mawburn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OK with paying a non-trivial premium to have a lot of menu planning and shopping be handled by someone else This is the one I've never been able to get past. For what these services cost, I can have someone else prepare my meal that will taste just as good or better. Why would I not do that? I get if you're trying to learn to cook or something like that, but that only sounds like a temporary problem.

$10 per serving is essentially fast food prices in the bay area - you can't really get a healthy meal with meat and vegetables. My family used Blue Apron for a while when we first had kids, and it was great for our lifestyle. We did move on to a service that optimizes grocery shopping so we can buy ingredients for a week's worth of meals in one shopping trip. Edit: for those who asked, I am using thefresh20 now. It's…

What service did you move on to? I'd be interested a better curated grocery delivery system than Amazon Fresh (which is already saving us a ton of time as a busy family).
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