Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
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Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#2> In order not to lose money, Postmates is limiting the free deliveries to orders over $30, which make up about 50% of the orders on Postmates.
New employee here (just joined this week) -- one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders.
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#3The article mentions "merchant" over and over again and never "restaurant". Does this mean Postmates has shifted its focus away from restaurants?
Edit: thanks for the replies below. Restaurants are the vendors where I most often find myself wanting something very specific delivered in a timely manner and been willing to pay a small premium - Postmates serves this use case better than any other service - glad to hear you will continue to support it even as you invest in other markets as well!
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#4> In order not to lose money, Postmates is limiting the free deliveries to orders over $30, which make up about 50% of the orders on Postmates. New employee here (just joined this week) -- one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders.
> one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders.
So, like...ummm... a real business?
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#5> In order not to lose money, Postmates is limiting the free deliveries to orders over $30, which make up about 50% of the orders on Postmates. New employee here (just joined this week) -- one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders.
> one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders. So, like...ummm... a real business?
Don't tell anyone but that's kind of unusual around these parts.
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#6> In order not to lose money, Postmates is limiting the free deliveries to orders over $30, which make up about 50% of the orders on Postmates. New employee here (just joined this week) -- one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders.
> one of the things that I find so compelling about Postmates is that it's focused on building a profitable business, without having to subsidize orders. So, like...ummm... a real business?
Well, it beats "let's build a pile of woo and then get rich people to throw money at us while we try to figure out how to make it into a business" which is common around here.
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#7The article mentions "merchant" over and over again and never "restaurant". Does this mean Postmates has shifted its focus away from restaurants? Edit: thanks for the replies below. Restaurants are the vendors where I most often find myself wanting something very specific delivered in a timely manner and been willing to pay a small premium - Postmates serves this use case better than any other service - glad to hear…
No shift in focus, we have always supported more than restaurants. Our goal is to make everything in your city available on-demand. You are correct though, food has been a huge catalyst for our early growth.
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#8The article mentions "merchant" over and over again and never "restaurant". Does this mean Postmates has shifted its focus away from restaurants? Edit: thanks for the replies below. Restaurants are the vendors where I most often find myself wanting something very specific delivered in a timely manner and been willing to pay a small premium - Postmates serves this use case better than any other service - glad to hear…
Disclosure: I am on the B.D & partnerships team on Postmates.
We haven't shifted focus away from restaurants. We have about 3000 Plus partners today of which a majority are restaurants. We've always done more than restaurants. Food is most of what we do but there are also grocery, apparel, electronics, essentials retailers on Postmates.
Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#9The article mentions "merchant" over and over again and never "restaurant". Does this mean Postmates has shifted its focus away from restaurants? Edit: thanks for the replies below. Restaurants are the vendors where I most often find myself wanting something very specific delivered in a timely manner and been willing to pay a small premium - Postmates serves this use case better than any other service - glad to hear…
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Re: Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service
#10I feel like uber deliveries, postmates, amazon prime, google express are all converging towards similar business models.