There are many other companies, apart from licker shop who deliver products like ice-creams without any delivery charges. Right now i am looking into a list, in the next post i will be mentioning it.

Maybe the plan is that with their restricted inventory and opening hours they'll lose money less quickly.

This precise scenario happened to me and my time as we were preparing an incredible pitch to a gynormic media company. The clock struck midnight and we needed Diet Coke, Red Bull, Jelly Beans, Chips and Hot Pockets. No service to call, so guess who had to run across the financial district to find a wal-greens or 7-11 that was open? It was me.

Let me create a corporate account for this thing and I can keep it busy all the time. It's a no brainer. The business model is different if its a service to businesses (which is why you're all to happy to pay $120 for car service to the airport (LGA or SFO) for a work trip but would hardly ever consider that for a personal trip, opting instead for the BART or a cab.

This precise scenario happened to me and my team as we were preparing an incredible pitch to a gynormic media company. The clock struck midnight and we needed Diet Coke, Red Bull, Jelly Beans, Chips and Hot Pockets. No service to call, so guess who had to run across the financial district to find a wal-greens or 7-11 that was open? It was me.

Let me create a corporate account for this thing and I can keep it busy all the time. It's a no brainer. The business model is different if its a service to businesses (which is why you're all too happy to pay $120 for car service to the airport (LGA or SFO) for a work trip but would hardly ever consider that for a personal trip, opting instead for the BART or a cab.

I hate to be the sad sack here, but this conversation is primarily about ordering food that is bad for your body from companies that treat their delivery staff like Walmarts do and expecting people to work all hours of the night.

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...so it doesn't work for the 1am junk food scenario but it does work for this likely scenario:

it's 11am, your in an office with 26 programmers and your short 5 chairs, 3 keyboards, and 6 mice. You order what you need on licketyship (the $20 delivery fee is better than the hourly rate of a programmer or designer sent across-town on a 2 hour journey & car-sharing fees) ... have a design meeting or go get lunch. Come back to enough chairs so that everybody can sit down down to work (or browse photos and blogs).

time & money well spent, and maybe everybody can go home by 1am.