Archive for December 21st, 2004

Drive-Through Supermarkets Coming

Progressive Grocer: AutoCart, LLC, said it plans to roll out the world’s first “drive-through supercenter” format, a 130,000-square-foot facility equipped to deliver more than 25,000 SKUs directly to consumers in their cars. The first of the supercenters, designed with 60 ordering/pickup stations, are projected to open in December 2005 in Albuquerque, N.M. and Tucson, Ariz., [...]

 

A New Hierarchy

Seth Godin: “? You start with something that does what you say it will. You add value when you provide swift support, but even better, when it becomes clear to a user that there are ways that the product can do even more than they expected. And finally, you win when you create mutually beneficial [...]