Why would Amazon pick and pack from a retail store and not a distribution center?
And what does Instacart bring to the table?
Amazon already has a website and seems to have no trouble building gigantic on-demand workforces. What else does Instacart have? I would guess close to 100% of Instacart users already use Amazon for things as well.
I don't see things ending up well for Instacart at all.
Instacart brings a userbase. Heck, maybe Amazon just buys Instacart as well.
Not sure if amazon's FCs are currently equipped to store produce and milk and other things like that. Just seems like they can take advantage of existing supply chains and synergies if they embrace Instacart.
They already have the infrastructure in place to replace Instacart overnight.
Every Instacart shopper currently working for Instacart hates Instacart. Amazon can just hire them all away, run their own logistics, profit.
That's not to say it won't be worse than Instacart. It most definitely will be.
Every Instacart shopper currently working for Instacart hates Instacart.
As the engineering manager actually looking at our NPS scores from our shoppers it's disheartening to see this kind of blatantly wrong trolling on HN... if you actually have any insight (other than outdated and wrong news articles from last year), I'd love to see it.
I'm personally excited for the opportunity this affords us -- completely validating this space and market.