For those who have been using this - how is the pricing? The reason I ask is that I don't see how Google can make money (especially with free shipping for 6 months) without putting a markup on items. Perhaps they are just trying to gain traction and are willing to bite the bullet for the first 6 months. I did a quick comparison between a random product: LG 42" Class 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV. Target's direct online store o…
I've never seen them mark anything up. Sale prices are reflected as well. They must be losing money on each order currently.
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#52guess I'm puzzled why this is on the front page today. Been using this for months. It's fabulous though.
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#53Does't deliver to my area - the wealthiest, most populous town in the richest county in the United States. It looks interesting, but then again, I don't really see anything on the site that's so perishable I can't wait a few days for Amazon to deliver or for me to just go to the store...and for groceries, things that actually would be perishable, I can just go on a nice walk anyways. I mean, if I'm ever in a situatio…
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#54What I really need is a service that can deliver milk and eggs and other staples in a day, seems like most cant do that.
The way most of these online stores do it in Sweden is that they have different types of "bags" you subscribe to. Each week you'll get a bag of the stuff you'd need for five meals. With that bag, you'll get recipies for food they think you should cook with the groceries.
This was (might still be, I have no idéa tbh) widely popular in Sweden.
One of the most popular is Linas matkasse and a (bad-ish) google translate is available here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
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This developed to others opening up business. I know of a guy who started a night-shop-delivery kind of thing. Basically, when all the stores are closed, you could go to his site and order stuff (milk, candy, condoms, tampons or other things someone could need at night) and he'd deliver it to you (in Stockholm).
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#55Does't deliver to my area - the wealthiest, most populous town in the richest county in the United States. It looks interesting, but then again, I don't really see anything on the site that's so perishable I can't wait a few days for Amazon to deliver or for me to just go to the store...and for groceries, things that actually would be perishable, I can just go on a nice walk anyways. I mean, if I'm ever in a situatio…
I think you're just lacking in a realization that being in the "wealthiest, most populous town in the richest county in the United States" does not guarantee you get to be the first to try new services. I don't know if living in that town means you also have any sort of intelligence, but if you didn't notice, this kind of service requires a lot of local overhead (trucks, delivery people, contracts with stores, etc).…
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#56What I really need is a service that can deliver milk and eggs and other staples in a day, seems like most cant do that.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not available in my area, but looks interesting. How does it work? * Who delivers? * Is it just local stores, or can it tap into warehouses? * Can you get books?
Google operates GSX. They have cute little vans with "Google Shopping Express" painted on them which drive around and deliver the products. It's whichever local stores agree to partner with Google. As far as I know, the process works like this: 1. Google partners with a store. They place some subset of the inventory of that store online. 2. As a user, you browse that inventory and buy. 3. The store receives the order…
Ebay Now's tip thing really screws it up. You're not sure if you're really supposed to tip or not and how much. Then you feel awkward almost no matter what when you meet the courier.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You also can't get alcohol. They've been pretty smart with what they do and don't allow - makes it much more flexible than Instacart in terms of logistics on their end. It means they can just dump everything on your doorstep if you're not home. I've noticed they do have some "fresh" things now, like bread, but that's it - no refrigerated things or other things that may spoil. I did have an issue one time ordering fre…
Do you know why they don't deliver alcohol?
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#59Been using this for a little over a year now and I can honestly say it's become almost a dependency for me. It really is amazing being able to order something and most of the time have it arrive within 3-5 hours or worst case scenario the next morning. I can ship things to work or my home (for free currently), etc. I'm guessing I may hold back on it when they start charging as I could do things like Instacart for qui…
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#60Does't deliver to my area - the wealthiest, most populous town in the richest county in the United States. It looks interesting, but then again, I don't really see anything on the site that's so perishable I can't wait a few days for Amazon to deliver or for me to just go to the store...and for groceries, things that actually would be perishable, I can just go on a nice walk anyways. I mean, if I'm ever in a situatio…
Yes. I wouldn't expect the richest county to be the target... it's probably not very dense because of large houses/yards, and everyone probably owns a car. I'd expect them to go with urban areas first, both because the higher density would make such a service more cost-effective to operate, and because car-free people are going to get the most use out of this, since there are lots more things that are hard to buy wit…
This isn't sour grapes, I probably wouldn't use the service anyways.
But consider this, the Bay Area (the premier delivery zone) has less than half the density of my town, which is on the edge of the principle tech corridor of the entire East Coast, which carries 70% of all the world's internet traffic, has more telecom and satellite companies than any place else on the planet, the national hub for data storage facilities, relatively low taxes, the highest educated and most affluent workforce in the U.S. and an astonishing number of high density business clusters.
If you consider the metro area I'm in (D.C.), the metro area is almost exactly like that of the entire Bay Area. Similar area, similar population density, centered on a major city with a similarly sized population. Both have extensive traffic issues, highly educated, affluent and mobile workforces, etc. Arguably has better transit infrastructure, logistics infrastructure and other supports. We also have far worse weather, making a service like this make far more sense.
But as we've seen time and again, the Bay Area desperately wants to be NYC (or rather, Manhattan) yet has characteristics no better than a #10 metro area and is only willing to take on the Bay Area and just one borough of NYC. San Francisco itself is just #20 in terms of density and only 1/10 the population of NYC.
SV needs to start acting like there's more to the U.S. than the Bay Area and Manhattan. I can almost guarantee that if it comes to my metro region, they'll center it only in D.C., it won't do well (because of the regional demographics) and once again the D.C. metro region will miss out on some of these interesting consumer offerings because nobody from the West Coast can be bothered to learn about different places.