Why is food e-commerce uniquely dependent on urban real estate and logistics?
Replied byTravis Kalanick
Founder & CEO at Atoms
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Started: 2018
Unlike Amazon, which ships stable goods from remote warehouses, prepared food has a thirty-minute half-life. The manufacturing and logistics must happen at the same location, within fifteen minutes of the consumer. This requires building an urban real estate fabric of automated, robotic hubs scattered across every city.
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