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Can this startup kill off the supermarket?

7 pointsby shoelessover 10 years ago

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Chevalierover 10 years ago
I used FreshDirect frequently when I lived in New York. It&#x27;s incredibly useful -- particularly if your only local supermarket is fairly awful for real food like produce or meat -- but it&#x27;s also fantastically expensive. I don&#x27;t see how Farmigo can skip FreshDirect&#x27;s warehouse model of distribution without even more drastic cost premiums.<p>Grocery delivery IS the future of supermarkets, but it requires significant infrastructure to make it cost-efficient. As Amazon is the only real player in Silicon Valley to invest in delivery infrastructure, it seems pretty likely that this future belongs to Bezos.<p>Matthew Yglesias posited that groceries would be the next logical step to build out that final mile to customers. When AmazonFresh starts building out with muscle, that&#x27;s when it&#x27;s time to short FedEx and UPS.