Monday, January 7

 
Online Grocery Slowly Gets Back on its Feet

Would you - or did you ever - pay more to have groceries delivered via online ordering? My son was an infant in 1995 when I first answered a survey question on this topic. My response was a definite "No! It's one way for me to get out of the house!" Of course, that was when he was an infant and had not yet perfected the Supermarket Screech. (Luckily for his health and my sanity, he's quite cooperative in the store.) If I had more children, or less time, I might have felt differently. The last few years saw the Web-grocery pioneers crumble under the weight of crushing inventory retrieval costs, underfinancing and bad planning. Things could be turning around for companies that get their financing, pricing and marketing strategies in tune, this story from E-Commerce Times says.
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