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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:…
yes, we do have people on the ground in Chicago. And, we are looking for more ops focused people to join. Please email us at jobs@instacart.com - Thank you.
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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.
1. You're going to spend 15-30 minutes in a grocery store vs 5 minutes selecting items from a website 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
I imagine it will be easy with things packaged goods, but when it comes to meat or fruit, you're hoping the personal shopper doesn't pick out some rotten fruit.
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…
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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.
Can you repost the neighborhoods or recite them from memory? Original comment got deleted.
- Drive to grocery store
- Roam around store picking out groceries and putting in shopping cart
- Remove all items from shopping cart, put them on belt to checkout
- Take all bags of purchased groceries and put in shopping cart
- Take all bags out of shopping cart, put in car
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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.
1. You're going to spend 15-30 minutes in a grocery store vs 5 minutes selecting items from a website 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
I just don't get the big deal, it seems like whining to me. It really isn't that big of a deal, you take your life so seriously that you can't spend a little time looking for food you might enjoy. Maybe it's because I'm European where we the attitude to food is different.
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...
I can't tell if this writer actually lived in Chicago, or just can't handle weather that isn't 72F and sunny. "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.
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I can't tell if this writer actually lived in Chicago, or just can't handle weather that isn't 72F and sunny. "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.
Seriously, it's as hot as the last circle for about 20 percent of the year, but when it's 10 degrees out you sack up and deal with it.