[govindkabra31]

There are some major differences.

1) Increased pool of unskilled labor-- manufacturing industry tanked, increased immigration.

2) Proliferation of internet connected, smartphones.

3) Avoiding obvious mistakes: no free deliveries for a bottle of coke, like in webvan days.

4) Doing direct store to consumer deliveries, avoiding warehouses, getting 20-25% cut from retailers (who see this as savings in marketing cost and reduced in-store staff cost)

[sarah2079]

Google shopping express will happily deliver you a $1.67 bottle of coke for free if you are covered by their free trial. This is not their ultimate business plan (outside the trial is $5 per store for 10 items max), but get in on the trial if you can! I have been getting free delivery from them for over a year now.