Instacart (YC S12) aims to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery

Post by klbarry » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 10:43 AM UTC

steve8918 wrote: post #37

Wingman4l7 wrote: post #19

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Personally, I wish Amazon had stuck with books. IMO, their diversification has made their site organization suffer -- especially when they allowed 3rd-party sellers to create product listings (which led to maddening duplicates). I pray that Newegg's diversification from computer hardware won't have the same adverse effect, but it's probably a law of retail that it will.

I completely disagree. I think Amazon.come is absolutely amazing, and I do the vast majority of my shopping through it. Bezos's intention was to offer everything under the sun when he started the company, hence the name Amazon, because of it's diversity in terms of number of species that exists there. I compare my experience with Newegg, and although I've bought some stuff from Newegg, I will generally go with Amazon…