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Instacart Aims to Be the Amazon Prime of Grocery Delivery
Instacart launched in 2012 with the ambition to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery — same-day delivery from local stores with a membership model. Ryan's note: 'Looks like I'm never going to the store again.' An early bet on on-demand delivery that proved prescient.
Amazon Same-Day Delivery: How the E-Commerce Giant Will Destroy Local Retail
Slate's 2012 analysis of how Amazon's same-day delivery push would eliminate local retail's last advantage — immediacy. Written before Amazon Fresh or Prime Now, this correctly identified the endgame of Amazon's logistics investment.
Get It Now: Any Product Delivered In Less Than an Hour in SF
PandoDaily's coverage of Get It Now, a 2012 San Francisco startup offering any-product delivery under one hour — a precursor to the on-demand delivery wave that would produce Postmates, Instacart, and Gopuff. A document of when instant delivery was still a startup novelty.