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Over the past few years, many cities have seen the arrival of services that promise to delivery groceries as quickly as possible. These services offer a level of convenience and laziness that have never been seen before, but they bring with them some problems. Can groceries be delivered TOO quickly?

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15-Minute Grocery Delivery Has Come to N.Y.C. Not Everyone Is Happy.
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DOMINO'S DROPS 30-MINUTE DELIVERY PLEDGE – Chicago Tribune
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Gorillas Workers Collective (Twitter)
  / gorillasworkers  

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Per direct verbod op nieuwe ‘darkstores’ voor flitsbezorging in de stad
https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/213290/p...

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Amsterdam orders three dark stores to close for breaking zoning plan
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Gorillas scraps 10-minute grocery delivery promise and tweaks business model
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Chapters

0:00 Pre-roll
0:07 Introduction
0:45 What is "flash" delivery?
1:28 How do they do it?
2:33 Can't you just walk to buy groceries?
3:28 Who uses it?
4:01 What's the downside?
6:42 VCs and dumb money
8:26 Worker exploitation & tech
10:41 Do we REALLY need this?
11:28 Where we are today & conclusion
12:10 Nebula spot & Patreon Shout-out