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by mack1001 3222 days ago
It could also mean that other grocers will need to bring delivery in-house to compete or instacart will have to start white labeling delivery.
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Instacart thrived on price-insensitive markup-insensitive Whole Foods crowd. Remains to be seen if they can convince the price-sensitive coupon-clipping clientele to pay the delivery fee and disregard the random product markups within the app. The average check also drops significantly at the lower end of the market - a dude stopping at 7-11 for a bag of chips, a Big Gulp Slurpie and a lotto ticket is unlikely to be their prime customer in terms of unit economics.