Investors pour $2M more into booze marketplace Drizly

Alcohol laws vary wildly between states and counties. Some places have strange laws like you can&#x27;t buy booze between certain times of day or on weekends and so on. Some force bars and establishment which serve alcohol to have more than half of their profits come from non-alcohol items. There are places which are &quot;dry&quot; (more than half the states allow localities to have those laws). Some tax it differently and so on.<p>Sounds like overcoming the regulatory hurdle here without doing illegal things will be hard part of the business.<p>Notice just the summary of laws:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_Un...</a><p>Now think about the counties and cities having different laws as well.

Careful here... like many companies &#x2F; industries, you should live in fear of Amazon.<p>Prime now already delivers alcohol in several cities, providing what seems to be a similiar service as Drizly. How does Drizly think they can compete with Prime Now? I&#x27;d think selling many products (Prime Now) has to be better than just selling one. Amazon has a history of destroying competitors (and occasionally buying them for rock bottom prices).<p>Competition is great, but competing with Amazon is not something in particular that I&#x27;d want to put money towards.<p>Here&#x27;s a CNN writers (positive) experience with wine delivery through the service: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;news&#x2F;companies&#x2F;amazon-prime-two-hour-delivery-wine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;news&#x2F;companies&#x2F;amazon-prime-...</a>

In Australia we have an interesting alcohol marketplace called Booze Bud. It is very hard to compete on the big brands that are stocked at the big chains and basically every bottle shop, which are everywhere here.<p>So instead I think they are getting most of their business by acting as a distribution platform for the smaller craft brands, who are sending stock into a centralised warehouse to sell on the platform.

I wonder if the availability of Uber and self-driving cars is a major threat to Drizly. I assume that one of the big reasons people want alcohol delivered is that they&#x27;re already drunk and can&#x27;t drive to get more.

Coming to Pennsylvania in 2043.

I suspect a barrier to growth for this company is just that lots of people don&#x27;t even know such a thing is legal. I&#x27;m astonished to find out that my hometown Boston allows it, and apparently that&#x27;s where Drizly started up.

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