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Google Shopping Express now available to all SF and Peninsula Shoppers

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Re: Google Shopping Express now available to all SF and Peninsula Shoppers

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I really hope Instacart and Postmates can compete with them! I see different use case for all of them. My first choice for groceries that i need the same day would be Instacart, i also love the on-demand food from great restaurants and the ability to get a few grocery items within the hour by Postmates and Google Shopping Express looks like a good Amazon alternative.

GSX doesn't do groceries (yet). Even though they have Raley's and Whole Foods, you can't, for example, order essentials like Milk.

Which makes sense - mostly non-perishables shelf-able items. At first, the lack of groceries made me wonder if it was useful at all, but being able to find e.g. 2 gallon-sized jugs of distilled vinegar awaiting at my doorstep is quite nice (local stores often just don't carry the stuff).

Also Instacart has TJ's. That one store is a winner all by itself.

Re: Google Shopping Express now available to all SF and Peninsula Shoppers

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post #4

Looks cool, here's wishing it comes to NYC soon! But what's Google's play in this? Isn't this a really low-margin business?

They saw Amazon Fresh, and are skating to where the puck will be. I'm guessing if it puts pressure on Amazon, it's worth it even if Google doesn't make big margins.

Re: Google Shopping Express now available to all SF and Peninsula Shoppers

#43
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It extends to the entire peninsula not just SF. Obviously, scaling something like this nation wide is a major undertaking, so it will take time. I don't get the dig against Google's users. Why must every HN comment on Google these days be accompanies by some snark.

Because for years Google received unalloyed adoration from the tech community because they presented themselves as a genuinely better kind of company, but now that have shown themselves to be just another corporation that will say or do anything for profit, people are cynical about them.

Even if that were even remotely true, it's still no excuse for the constant non-sequiturs.
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