Gigi Rodgers
Regular Contributor
Hey everybody!
Heard the news that Amazon bought out Whole Foods yesterday, and I just bought a LOT of grocery store-like items from a company called iHerb (one of the ONLY U.S. companies that ships to China - my current location - without exorbitant shipping and import fees).
If you are a mom & pop shop that sells groceries or a refrigerated product, how do you compete? How do you pivot into the online industry?
I was specifically thinking about the shipping costs of refrigerated items like fruits, flowers, yogurt, etc.
I looked at the FedEx Cold Shipping and the smallest box is $46 (?!?).
Even though, I know, you can make the consumer pay the shipping cost - the price would be massive if you're doing B2C. And you're a mom & pop, so you have yet scaled your business to handle the volume of B2B.
Does anyone know how companies sell refrigerated products, B2C, without making the buyer choke over the price of shipping?
And I think we've all been in the situation where you will have $100 worth of products in your Amazon cart, you're ready to place your order, but you will pause and scoff at the $7 shipping.
Heard the news that Amazon bought out Whole Foods yesterday, and I just bought a LOT of grocery store-like items from a company called iHerb (one of the ONLY U.S. companies that ships to China - my current location - without exorbitant shipping and import fees).
If you are a mom & pop shop that sells groceries or a refrigerated product, how do you compete? How do you pivot into the online industry?
I was specifically thinking about the shipping costs of refrigerated items like fruits, flowers, yogurt, etc.
I looked at the FedEx Cold Shipping and the smallest box is $46 (?!?).
Even though, I know, you can make the consumer pay the shipping cost - the price would be massive if you're doing B2C. And you're a mom & pop, so you have yet scaled your business to handle the volume of B2B.
Does anyone know how companies sell refrigerated products, B2C, without making the buyer choke over the price of shipping?
And I think we've all been in the situation where you will have $100 worth of products in your Amazon cart, you're ready to place your order, but you will pause and scoff at the $7 shipping.
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