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In Canada, today only, Uber is delivering puppies for 15 minutes of playtime cuteness: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/uber-to-offer-puppies-on-dema...
It was adorable.
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They should be carting around older dogs which are rarely adopted. Maybe it's wrong of me but I find Uber hiding behind puppies to be about as despicable as the rest of their actions.
That sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen. Imagine they have the "wrong" old-dog adopted by an innocent family, and something bad happens afterwards? Who is the family going to blame exactly? More importantly, who are you going to call out if that were to happen? Be honest.
Maybe instead this should be left to the professionals. There's some honesty.
Uber is becoming like Google but for the physical world. There are so many parallels -- the omnipresence for starters.
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It's probably worth noting that--primarily in denser locations--the rapid delivery of goods is already a thing. Delivery of papers by bicycle messenger (although that has declined), takeout delivery, grocery delivery (which has been around for a long time in many cities but has been getting more systematic with services like Instacart). Of course, there have also been massive failures trying this in the past like Koz…
It's also about division of labor and specialization. Grocery stores don't have thousands of vendors showing up at stores, they have long delivery chains that consolidate and redistribute... On the last mile for home delivery it makes sense for one service to act as a delivery agent for multiple stores, when a pizza shop doesn't have many orders from 1pm-5pm, they are paying employee(s)... with a service based delive…