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Juicero May Be Feeling the Squeeze

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Post by nkristoffersen »

narrator wrote: post #140
Yetanfou wrote: post #135

I'll offer a brief glimpse into the future. Juicero, burnt by the ease at which consumers rob them of potential revenue poaches someone away from the likes of HP or Gillette. That someone comes up with the perfect solution: add a coded valve to the juice bags which only opens when it has been inserted in a licensed Juicero machine. The added advantage is that the machine can refuse to squeeze more juice out of a bag…

You can also buy a juicer. Takes a negligible effort to clean, and with all those grocery delivery services, the slogging vegetables around part is taken care of.

That doesn't work in an office environment. The "K" coffee makers are a dream in breakrooms everywhere.

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Post by creaghpatr »

personjerry wrote: post #12
dpflan wrote: post #5

"Two investors in Juicero were surprised to learn the startup’s juice packs could be squeezed by hand without using its high-tech machine." This sounds almost comical...

I really hope a reference to that makes it to season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley

Juicers have a small episode arc in "The Empty Chair" !

I forget the exact line but it has something to do with "why does he have 2 juicers"

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/silicon-valley-almost-painfully...

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Post by [deleted] »

ianferrel wrote: post #133
Pigo wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hate what those machines have done to coffee. It's difficult to explain to people at work, family, and friends how they paid a premium to be overcharged and produce extra waste without coming off like a jerk. I miss getting up from my machine and filling my mug with a regular coffee pot.

I know that I'm paying a premium and that the coffee isn't as good as what else I could make. I'm paying for time. I can just press a button and have coffee in ~1 minute. No need to grind beans or clean the coffeemaker after. Worth it for me.

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Post by Animats »

roymurdock wrote: post #139
Yetanfou wrote: post #135

I'll offer a brief glimpse into the future. Juicero, burnt by the ease at which consumers rob them of potential revenue poaches someone away from the likes of HP or Gillette. That someone comes up with the perfect solution: add a coded valve to the juice bags which only opens when it has been inserted in a licensed Juicero machine. The added advantage is that the machine can refuse to squeeze more juice out of a bag…

You should consider applying for an operations role at Juicero - the double-walled solution was truly a nice touch. On another note, Juicero doesn't care what you or your daughter do to make juice, because you were never meant to buy a Juicero. It's a safe bet that their strategy was to sell B2B to large corporations and into the high-end hospitality industry (hotels, cruise ships, colleges) rather than B2C. I'm sure…

No, it's built as a home appliance. If it was for the food service industry, it would be heavy stainless steel and cleanable with boiling soapy water, like everything else in that industry. And it would be faster; 10 seconds, not 2 minutes. It wouldn't look like an overgrown iPad.

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Post by smacktoward »

grabcocque wrote: post #6

$120m from investors none of whom were aware you don't need a $400 machine to squeeze the juice from fruit? How do people with so little sense get so much money?

As the saying goes, if you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

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Post by cowpewter »

magic_beans wrote: post #124
film42 wrote: post #36

I bet you could also use a straw and drink it right out of the pouch!

That's honestly a good enough idea already, especially if the pouch was recyclable. Then the straw could be metal (reusable) with a pointy end to pierce the pouch. Boom, solid business to have 10 of these pouches delivered weekly.

Hipster CapriSun?

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #68
wyldfire wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, darkness my old friend. The analogies to Keurig won't stop here -- next up, DRM juice packs.

Already done. >The device also reads a QR code printed on the back of each produce pack and checks the source against an online database to ensure the contents haven’t expired or been recalled, the person said.

So no-juice-for-you when the internet goes down. Brilliant.
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