RE: UKNM: Re: Re: Waitrose man in The Guardian

[Richard Bailey]

I would have though given that tescos and the other supermarket giants make

2%-3% profit tops it would be a tricky thing to do without charging more.

The cost of a van, fule and other factors might make food and other low

margin goods hard to deliver in a short time for profit.  We all know the

logic that pizza costs more if a teenager on a scooter brings it round, how

could you do the same with shopping in an hour without a huge loss making

introduction program.


Richard


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Subject: UKNM: Re: Re: Waitrose man in The Guardian


One thing Waitrose does have is those swanky barcode scanners, wirelessly

telling the tills what you are putting into your bags. Thus elimenating the

two things I hate the most about shopping, waiting in queues and packing the

shopping in those placcy bags!


Anyway,  Jon Browett (Tesco.Com CEO) was asked, at a seminar last week if

they (tesco.com) planned to do a  one hour delivery service. Sadly he didn't

answer it but he did talk about tesco's strategy and that I think gave the

reason why Urbanfetch failed. Rather than delivering from a central

warehouse they should have done it the tesco way, from local stores.  Sadly

urbanfetch didn't have any. Tesco do so I think they should offer a 1 hour

service and sell the kind of FMCG that Urbanfetch were selling and that made

them so successful, even if they couldn't sustain it.  I just wish Tesco

thought it too.



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