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It's for city dwellers by Saltlord 12/07/2017, 7:02am PST
After 6pm, the grocery stores in my neighborhood are completely fucking raided. You're not gonna find a decent piece of produce at the cheap ones and the expense of travelling to the good ones can be significant unless you own a car. Plenty of people find that parking and other annoying aspects of vehicle ownership prevent this. With on-demand car rental services and transportation costs, the total cost to bring home a meal could well come in above $14 and you're not gonna get the time back. The cost to eat by standing in line at a restaurant is comparable if not higher, and the line is still fucking annoying.

Then there's the distaste people have for the service at many of these places for some lousy meal they don't particularly want. For the upper tier of fine dining experiences, you can pay a hundred bucks a head for middling portions and oversalted, uninspired food.

In cities like mine, there's people like me who don't care and manage just fine in case they want to do a grocery run. I'm not the market and probably never will be. Then there's isolated teleworkers who have a dental clinic and a 24-hour convenience store and dry cleaners' on the first floor of their apartment building and just never leave the community if they can help it. This is a few steps removed from a dystopian corporate arcology right out of a cyberpunk game, it borders on an urban answer to a company town. Plenty of those people get Blue Apron.

There's also people who can never find time for grocery runs or pay for convenience, and people who are taken in by claims of the green supply chain and good portioning. You can get an urban dweller - not even a particularly hipstery one - to pay you money to bring groceries to the door already. Amazon does grocery delivery. If you find the ones who can't decide what to eat and don't want to do math to portion it properly, you get their money too.

The ideal Blue Apron customer is someone who likes cooking, sees it as a bit of a luxury compared to everyone willing to stand in a Chick-fil-a line every day, and will pay to take out all the rough and menial aspects of it like hauling your groceries home.
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Someone explain Blue Apron to me by an idiot 12/07/2017, 5:19am PST NEW
    It's for city dwellers by Saltlord 12/07/2017, 7:02am PST NEW
        I've lived in no nearby grocery areas before by an idiot 12/08/2017, 6:37am PST NEW
            Put your shit in a bindle and hop a train to DC, NYC is a rat's nest by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 7:28am PST NEW
                I left after just 10 months! by an idiot 12/08/2017, 8:43am PST NEW
    I can't, BUT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/07/2017, 10:22am PST NEW
        Whole foods' peak hours system is so satisfying in comparison I go just for that by Saltlord 12/07/2017, 2:43pm PST NEW
            GUYS I LIVE WITH BLACK PEOPLE AND AM DOWN WITH THE STRUGGLE OF THE POOR NT by (shops at whole foods unironically) 12/07/2017, 3:45pm PST NEW
                My favorite whole foods shoppers are the ones buying groceries with food stamps by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 4:27am PST NEW
                I prefer to shop ironically. It's like normal shopping except there's NT by this thing I do with my eyebrows. 12/08/2017, 3:40pm PST NEW
            Re: Whole foods' peak hours system is so satisfying in comparison I go just for by Roop 12/08/2017, 6:48am PST NEW
                I expect amazon will be adding a delivery business to WholePaycheck. by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 7:29am PST NEW
                    There's all kinds of radical new experiments from my local supermarkets by Roop 12/08/2017, 8:09am PST NEW
                        so in the future, milkmen will make a comeback NT by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 1:42pm PST NEW
    A friend reviewed it as being a nice couple's activity that helped them learn to NT by cook - Fullofkittens 12/07/2017, 11:29am PST NEW
        That was the only use I found for it by budget man 12/08/2017, 1:54am PST NEW
 
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