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Leaving out a lot of the North side there. I was going to sign up and give it a shot (currently use Peapod) but they don't deliver to me.
Chicago though?
"Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta told AllThingsD that his company built a 'feasibility matrix' to determine which city it would expand to. Components of the matrix included what you might guess: car-ownership density and income. Weather was reportedly also a factor. Mehta tells TechCrunch that '33 percent of the year, Chicago has some form of precipitation' and that his company has learned in the San Francisco area that…
I think in Chicago he's going to learn something about how much people like grocery shopping when it's 15°F outside too...
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Leaving out a lot of the North side there. I was going to sign up and give it a shot (currently use Peapod) but they don't deliver to me.
For a new market the area covered is pretty good. Your neighborhood probably got skipped because of Uptown :P. Notice how far west they go in Logan Square but Humboldt Park is skipped?
But yeah, I wish they came as far north as Uptown.
I live in Chicago and a Trader Joes opened up near me about a week ago. This is the most fantastic news I've heard in a long time: cheap, good groceries delivered to my door!
My roommate just signed up for Peapod and got our first delivery last week. I am looking forward to trying out Instacart and comparing the experience. It seems like I've been seeing an increasing number of Peapod trucks around the city the past six months (maybe it's just me), so I agree with the article's suggestion that there is demand for the service in Chicago. Edit: In case the team is reading, I'm also curious:…
Mehta tells TechCrunch that “33 percent of the year, Chicago has some form of precipitation” and that his company has learned in the San Francisco area that “people just do not like grocery shopping when it’s raining.” I think in Chicago he's going to learn something about how much people like grocery shopping when it's 15°F outside too...
"It’s as cold as the last circle of Dante’s Inferno in Chicago about half the year"
Um, not even close. And even when it is 15F, we don't sit and home and moan about it. Life goes on.
I live in Chicago and a Trader Joes opened up near me about a week ago. This is the most fantastic news I've heard in a long time: cheap, good groceries delivered to my door!
I live in Chicago and a Trader Joes opened up near me about a week ago. This is the most fantastic news I've heard in a long time: cheap, good groceries delivered to my door!
If it opened up "near" you, can you explain why delivery is fantastic news? I think I do grocery shopping different than most people living in the city that find these services useful. If a grocery store is five minutes away or on the walk home from the train, just-in-time shopping seems much more practical.
2. 30 minutes + travel time is worth more to me than $3.99
3. Not having to deal with finding the items in the grocery store is worth its own point