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In the US can you not order food for delivery directly from supermarket, same for restaurants?

I would have thought in the UK Tesco, Sainsburys etc do as well as any delivery only services (Ocado, Amazon Fresh etc).

I would have guessed direct restaurant orders are as large as justeat/uber eats style services. They would certainly deserve a place on the pie chart...

I also dont believe the average US consumer spends $105/month on meal kits...

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> In the US can you not order food for delivery directly from supermarket, same for restaurants?

I think it's available in larger, older cities (e.g. on the East Coast), but in the rest of the country it's a lot rarer. I think maybe it's much the same reason we no longer have bellboys, ushers or elevator attendants: minimum wage & payroll taxes rose to the point that it wasn't cost-effective for grocers or customers.

In the UK we have higher minimum wage, and higher petrol duties, and yet we manage to have extensive supermarket delivery.

And it's been happening for many years - the first "online" shopping from home happened in the UK, from Tesco, in 1984.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24091393

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