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Originally Posted by Sly
The current "state of the industry," as it were, is not sustainable.
Last night I checked out Postmates because I also want pizza tonight and I cannot find delivery from any pizza place except the majors. For $10 a month you get unlimited deliveries with no fee, or you pay a $3.99 per trip delivery fee.
That is not sustainable. These IT companies with venture funding are "disrupting" markets with prices that they will not be able to maintain as soon as the investment money goes away.
My sincere hope is that these fluffed companies do not destroy the local companies that I love. If the local companies can hang on a few more years, they may make it. These upcoming years, until the bubble pops, are going to be very rough though.
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I won't be shocked at all to see some changes in how the industry operates. That said, I don't think pizza as a food is going anywhere and I think people having pizza delivered will still be around for a long time. How that pizza gets delivered may well change dramatically over time. I live in a place where Postmates and services like that aren't available yet, but it won't shock me if someone opens a smaller scale version of something like that locally in the future. Years from now my pizza may be delivered by some freelance delivery driver and not the pizza company, but I think I will still be able to get it.
Like you say, the worry is how these changes will affect the smaller companies. Companies like Amazon are buying up everything so I won't be surprised either if some years from now that freelance delivery driver brings me pizza, but my only choices are a few large corporate chains.