My wife and I used Webvan a few times when we lived in Marietta, Georgia. I always liked the idea of having home delivered groceries. Now Amazon is trying it – with some key differences.
If online grocery shopping gives you flashbacks to failed experiments like Webvan, you are not alone. But there are important differences between the Amazon model and the failed early dot-com grocers. Webvan built and stocked its own warehouses, from which it then delivered goods in vans, to a decidedly local delivery area. The company eventually collapsed under the cost of running all of this single-handedly, without relying on existing grocery chains to help keeping the supply lines stocked.
You can try the grocery service here. It’s all dried packaged and canned stuff. They’ve got lots of expensive organic type products.