Would subscription based grocery ever work?
Do you think Subscription model could ever work for grocery shopping ? since 60-65% of the grocery cart remains same most of the time , thus it should work but it doesnt! why?
I wonder if a legit subscription service, for perhaps a select group of items that a user consistently purchases, would work. Could be complicated when things like eggs fluctuate so much in price.
"On March 1, 2019, Amazon discontinued the series, claiming that it was made unnecessary due to automatic reordering and product subscriptions."
Now we do have the problem that we struggle to find the time for grocery trips (ag work keeps my wife busy from sunrise to sundown.) Seems to me that a highly personalized delivery service backed by a full-service grocery that links your in-store experience to deliveries that you get could be a good idea, with regular deliveries approximating a “subscription” the economics would improve, overhead for $300 of groceries would not be much more than $30 and in our case we could tolerate deliveries coming in at a time that is cost-effective for the supermarket.
which got bought by instacart that applied recommendation technology to automatically fill out orders for grocery, the idea is that the problem of filling up a complete order for a week worth of groceries is hard online. In our area it was backed by an independent grocery store that serves as a kind of “startup accelerator” for food-related business.