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Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by just_one_time_ » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 2:44 PM UTC

goldcd wrote: post #140

Always seemed a strange business model. Appealing to people who "want to cook", but doing so by turning yourself into a production-line assembler. Like saying your want to learn carpentry, by buying some Ikea flat-pack. What confused me (and makes me think I've overlooked something) is why nothing more interesting has come along from the supermarkets. In the UK at least, they're all online and deliver - but they all…

It might be dumb but it worked for us. I work long hours and my wife hated/sucked at cooking.

We did BA for about 6 month, she loved it and it got her into the habit. After we stoped BA she kept up with it and still is enjoying herself.

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by travelton » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:19 PM UTC

aakilfernandes wrote: post #138

travelton wrote: post #137

I recently subscribed to a different box service, which does all the food prep work for you (chopping/dicing/slicing, making sauces). It generally takes us 20-30 minutes less to prep, cook and clean over Blue Apron. IMO this is the main value prop Blue Apron is missing. For me, Blue Apron is really only solving for time spent looking up a recipe. In most cases, I'm already going to the grocery store each week. So, wh…

Name of service please?

Gobble

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by barrow-rider » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC

staticautomatic wrote: post #179

djhworld wrote: post #174

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I think the biggest problem for me as a single person is the way most stuff sold in supermarkets is designed for family meals. Which is fair, families probably represent a significant portion of their customer base. But it becomes problematic for me because I either have to eat the same meal 4 days in a row (or freeze it) or only use half of the ingredients and shove the rest in the cupboard, or throw it away because…

Cue Steve Martin hot dog bun rant.

"In [Father of The Bride, George Banks [Steve Martin] heads to a local market in order to cool off after having had a bit of a meltdown over his daughter’s impending wedding. While there, he has an even bigger meltdown over the fact that while hot dogs are sold in packages of eight, hot dog buns are sold in packages of twelve. So, he decides to take a stand by ripping open packages to remove the four offending buns. When a befuddled clerk tries to stop him, George says that the hot dog and hot dog bun corporations “are not ripping off this nitwit anymore, because I am not paying for one more thing I don’t need. George Banks is saying ‘no’!” LOL He winds up getting arrested and is sent to jail, where his wife Nina (aka Diane Keaton) has to bail him out."

http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2011/06/28/the-father-of-the-b...

Re: Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

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Post by tigershark » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:06 AM UTC

Pfhreak wrote: post #173

tigershark wrote: post #116

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Most of the online grocery delivery shops give you food from local producers, all of them must indicate the origin, at least in uk. For some recipes you can’t have local produce, by definition. Your box doesn’t solve the trip to the store because you still need to buy household stuff, breakfast food and all the other stuff that you use daily that is not sold by blue apron or these kind of services. The premium doesn’…

"This solved a problem for me, and I found it valuable." "No, you're wrong, it'd didn't solve that problem for you." Wat? I'm able to evaluate a cost benefit scenario in the context of my own life quite adequately. The stuff we need from the store these days is staples, which we buy rarely in bulk.

I said that I don’t think that there are many people that benefit from this scenario for the reasons that I wrote. If you benefit from it being aware of the alternatives of course you can use it.

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Post by g051051 » Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 2:09 PM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #299

g051051 wrote: post #281

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> Appealing to people who "want to cook", but doing so by turning yourself into a production-line assembler. Like saying your want to learn carpentry, by buying some Ikea flat-pack. That's not a great analogy. It was far more than assembly...with Ikea products, you don't cut the wood to size, or carve joints, or even use glue. With Blue Apron and the other in this space, you do everything except the shopping. so you…

It takes out the entire creativity process of cooking, and for people who actually like cooking on a higher level also the process of selecting the right ingredients. I don’t understand the whole shopping part, it would seem to be pretty clear to me that any place that is serviced by Blue Apron should have a service for groceries to be delivered as well, in fact it’s highly unlikely that they won’t. I order all my gr…

> It takes out the entire creativity process of cooking, and for people who actually like cooking on a higher level also the process of selecting the right ingredients.

Did you ever try one of these services? Because that's the opposite of our experience. My wife is the cook in our family, and she loved it. She learned by example...seeing the quantities, getting an understanding of how to handle ingredients, practicing different cooking techniques, different variations, different flavors, etc., etc., etc...

Not only that, but we didn't get every meal from the service...she used what she learned to really branch out and make all kinds of things she never would have attempted in the past.

We always knew we were paying a premium for the convenience and variety, but it's a trade-off a lot of busy families are willing to make. It allowed us to prepare something at home instead of getting fast food or going to a restaurant, which would have been even more expensive.

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Post by goldcd » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 8:33 PM UTC

geodel wrote: post #308

ghaff wrote: post #226

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As someone who often cooks for myself, bananas are a pretty terrible example because you can literally buy one banana if you want. Perhaps I've been violating a taboo all my life, but I have never had a problem breaking up a bunch of bananas in the store. Fresh herbs I agree. It's one reason I tend to grow them. [ADDED: There are also a lot of frozen and freeze dried options these days that I often take advantage of.…

With bananas I make a banana milkshake when they are too soft to be eaten. With cilantro bunch, I keep some for garnishing rest I make chutney. Simple recipe of cilantro, garlic, green chilies, slices of fresh/frozen raw mango or even raw mango powder and salt etc goes in blender and out comes the chutney.

I (not quite sub-consciously) ensure I always leave some bananas to get to that 'black, but not crushed' state - solely to make milkshakes from. I give myself a pass on the calories, as I'm "being green and eating my 5-a-day"