Amazon Launches Food Delivery Service in India (techcrunch.com) 21
Amazon is joining India's online food delivery market just as top local players Swiggy and Zomato reduce their workforce to steer through the coronavirus pandemic and months after Uber Eats' exit from the nation. From a report: The e-commerce giant, which has invested more than $6.5 billion in India, today launched its food delivery service, called Amazon Food, in select parts of Bangalore. The company had originally planned to launch the service in India last year, which it then moved to March but pushed it further amid the nationwide stay-at-home order the Indian government issued in late March. In the run up to the launch, the e-commerce giant began testing the food delivery service with select restaurant partners in Bangalore with employees earlier this year, TechCrunch reported in late February. "Customers have been telling us for some time that they would like to order prepared meals on Amazon in addition to shopping for all other essentials. This is particularly relevant in present times as they stay home safe," an Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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But yet you posted on it. So I guess you cared enough to click on the link.
Grand Tour Dealy (Score:2)
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Even they have to get tired of that after awhile...
dabbawalas (Score:3)
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By losing money on each sale but making it up on volume?
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By injecting more disposable packaging into the mix - which may or may not be a bad thing depending on how it is done. In any case, the existing system is fascinating, and well worth study as a distribution model.
Maybe what he really wants is to get his hands on the delivery system and use it to deliver other goods. Perhaps he sees food as his "way in"
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I thought India already had a food delivery system
Yes, but it didn't go that well - Top Gear India Special [youtu.be]
Rich in India have servants to do everything (Score:2)
Best of luck to Bezos on this one.
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Bangalore is the wealthiest and most modern city in India with a huge high tech work force. A big chunk of that is the several tens of thousands of Amazon employees, most of them are young and almost none of them can afford servants (or for that matter afford an apartment with space to keep a servant). Tens of thousands of their support staff live in hostels of one type or other where they're not allowed to cook, many of them work long hours and really don't want to have to spend the time going to a resta
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Yes, I've noticed that you'll ignore anything that doesn't agree with your bigotry. It's too bad, the world has a lot to offer if you take off the blinders.
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Bigot? Lol, that's hilarious. You don't even know what that means if you think it applies to me. There are a lot of things you could call me and be right but bigot isn't one of them.
No moral values (Score:2)
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Like Coca Cola , Ford and IBM? Hitler's inspiration was the German-American Bund - a US far right group.
Short AMZN (Score:2)
Noone has made money on delivery in India. Time to short AMZN?
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Really? Go ahead, give it a try.
During 'new hire orientation' there's always a rando long-time Amazonian to give a talk. For our group there was a fellow who started his talk saying, "I started a new division that is currently losing $6 million a month. if it doesn't start making money in a few months we'll shut it down, but my position in the company will not be affected." A few months later they did shut his division down, he's now running a different and more profitable project.
Corporate security got
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Whoops, misspoke. Should have been $6 million a week.