So Amazon now has 5 services to order food from: Prime Now, Prime Pantry, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Restaurants, and regular Amazon. Did I miss anything?
I can't say I'm having an easy time keeping track of which service to use for what.
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#42This must be worrying for JustEat who just purchased HungryHouse. Amazon getting in on your business is never great.
Interesting when companies have different names in different countries. It's called Delivery Hero in Australia. I suspect it's a UK based company which eventually got large enough to buy a similar AU based company and just kept the name in order to maintain an already established brand.
Unilever has like 8 different ice cream brands in different countries all sharing the same logo and mostly selling the same products.
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#43So Amazon now has 5 services to order food from: Prime Now, Prime Pantry, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Restaurants, and regular Amazon. Did I miss anything? I can't say I'm having an easy time keeping track of which service to use for what.
From the url and header images, this looks like a feature of PrimeNow to me...
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#44So Amazon now has 5 services to order food from: Prime Now, Prime Pantry, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Restaurants, and regular Amazon. Did I miss anything? I can't say I'm having an easy time keeping track of which service to use for what.
My general rule of thumb is to use Prime Now for jelly bellys, Amazon Fresh for salads, Restaurants for vindaloo, or regular Amazon for bizzare chinese candies shipped direct. Also I'm enjoying Amazon dark web for crack.
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#45This must be worrying for JustEat who just purchased HungryHouse. Amazon getting in on your business is never great.
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Realistically, pizzas are a pretty poorly shaped thing for a drone to carry since it would block all of the propellers and it would definitely be way more effort to keep warm. Self driving cars are probably perfect for this, though. In California, self driving cars are classified as neighborhood vehicles which can't go over 25 which is probably fine for restaurant delivery.
Land vehicles do have a size advantage that can be used for en route baking: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/inside-si... I would really like to see the air delivery though. Maybe a calzone or stromboli would be more viable.
I believe the concept has been tested with burritos: http://www.darwinaerospace.com/burritobomber
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#47This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…
Is it such a bad thing for society if a business fails when transparency is added to how they conduct their business? Yelp reviews are also intregal to the success of a restaurant and similar complaints are lobbed at them for destroying revenue at small companies. Have you ever gone to a restaurant that is poorly ranked on yelp? I have. They tend to deserve the poor ratings. This is a valuable service to the consumer…
> Is it such a bad thing for society if a business fails when transparency is added to how they conduct their business?
Transparency has nothing to do with it.
Amazon has a history of shutting down Fulfillment By Amazon seller accounts in an extremely arbitrary and capricious manner.
If they only shut them down due to legitimate complaints then sure, you might have a point. The story I linked proved that's not the case, and there are many more like it. That man's life would still be in ruins if he hadn't (luckily) gotten so much attention through Reddit and HN.
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#48This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…
You could say the same of yelp, or google. Or a higher end restaurant losing a michelin star. What happens when they get bad reviews and their ranking drops? You can diversify and get traffic from other platforms, work through the platform to either fix the problems, respond to complaints, or just get more reviews.
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#49So Amazon now has 5 services to order food from: Prime Now, Prime Pantry, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Restaurants, and regular Amazon. Did I miss anything? I can't say I'm having an easy time keeping track of which service to use for what.
Amazon Go (still in beta) for those who want to get the food personally.
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#50This is obviously part of Amazon's effort to build out their own delivery network in order to muscle out fedex, ups, usps, etc. If their drivers aren't delivering packages they can be delivering food. That makes their whole delivery network stronger because it allows them to have more drivers employed driving around town all the time. It's the same reason Uber got into food delivery.