Interesting, but since FreshDirect only delivers to New York (according to a Google search—being British I hadn’t heard of them before), and it’s only a slight majority of LWers that even live in the United States (54.7%), I’m not sure how well the data generalises. It’s in-depth and community-norm-conforming that I don’t really mind the post being here, but how much use is this to people in different regions or countries, or even just other New Yorkers who prefer to physically go shopping for their food?
Thanks for the positive feedback. In re your critique, do you want to bet that the prices will be on average more than 30% percent different at your nearest grocery store?
I wouldn’t take that bet, I was thinking of smaller differences with changes in the ordering of cost-per-calorie as the main concern, and on reflection those differences shouldn’t matter much to the usefulness.
Interesting, but since FreshDirect only delivers to New York (according to a Google search—being British I hadn’t heard of them before), and it’s only a slight majority of LWers that even live in the United States (54.7%), I’m not sure how well the data generalises. It’s in-depth and community-norm-conforming that I don’t really mind the post being here, but how much use is this to people in different regions or countries, or even just other New Yorkers who prefer to physically go shopping for their food?
Thanks for the positive feedback. In re your critique, do you want to bet that the prices will be on average more than 30% percent different at your nearest grocery store?
I wouldn’t take that bet, I was thinking of smaller differences with changes in the ordering of cost-per-calorie as the main concern, and on reflection those differences shouldn’t matter much to the usefulness.