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To: H James Morris who wrote (78676)9/26/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor   of 164684
 
Eric, very good. I'm spending the rest of my Sunday trying to bid on the cheapest lettuce.

I was talking to someone the other night who interviewed at Webvan. So this is purely gossip mind you. But they said Webvan is setting up a back room or something where they will offer cases of wine, and quantities of prepared foods that they can't sell... its an interesting prospect because along with their delivery infrastructure this can almost be a catering service. The point is the auctions won't exist for the average, everyday goods, but only the quantities of prepared foods they need to move. In that sense, it sounds interesting.

If you pull up the webvan webpage you'll see they offer a lot of "service for 2" etc. on a given day. Those are good because they are high profit margin. But there are always leftovers.
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