Category: blue apron

Blue Apron considers selling itself as it bleeds customers

Post author By Randall
Post date February 18, 2020
Categories In blue apron, business, cooking, earnings, Food, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, Internet, meal kit, meal kits, q42019, services, Tech

[ad_1] Recent subscriber data explains just why Blue Apron is exploring mergers and sales. The company’s customers dropped from about 557,000 at the end of 2018 to 351,000 a year later — that’s a drop of nearly 37 percent in the space of a year. Orders dropped by nearly a third, too. And while Blue […]

Meal kits might be better for the planet than a trip to the store

Post author By Randall
Post date April 22, 2019
Categories In blue apron, carbon dioxide, Delivery, emissions, food and drink, food waste, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, green, hellofresh, last mile, meal delivery, meal kits, packaging, shipping, study, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation, university of michigan

[ad_1] The difference is in the amount of food waste meal kits prevent. While grocery store meals have less packaging per meal, more food has to be purchased and that leads to higher household food waste. It turns out all the cardboard and plastic wrap involved isn’t as bad for the environment as the extra […]