Safeway, every mention
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a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 8:56 Ryan Caldbeck That's very different than the offline world where if I'm selling into Safeway or Whole Foods or Costco down the street, it's hard for me to switch the product out if it's not working, to tweak a package, whatever it is. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:53 Ryan Caldbeck So I was in a Safeway, um, half a mile from here on, on Sand Hill six months ago, and was buying some steak.
- ▶ 14:43 Ryan Caldbeck But the safe way down the street has a one and a half percent net margin.
- ▶ 28:07 Ryan Caldbeck So if I want to launch a new chocolate bar to get on the shelf of Safeway, it is literally 50 to a 100,000 dollars just to get it on the shelf.
- ▶ 37:54 Jeff Jordan I used to move, gain share by, you know, going on special on Knob Hills Food one day, and then special at Safeway.
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 22:39 Alex Rampell The best way to visualize this is you go to Safeway and you look at all the shelves at Safeway and they're all full. 8 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
- ▶ 9:03 Elizabeth Weil And you actually do go to Safeway and buy that product.
Distribution, Channel & Partnerships
- ▶ 20:42 Alex Rampell So if you, again, go back to Serial, if you have Serial, you might want to try selling that somewhere else before you get Safeway to do a 2000 store test.
The Promise of AI
- ▶ 2:26 Frank Chen This is a startup called Dispatch Robotics, which is basically building an autonomous shopping cart that will go the last mile between the Safeway or Whole Foods all the way to your house.
What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
- ▶ 22:25 Alex Rampell I go to Safeway and actually Safeway was the one that, that basically built Blackhawk and incubated it. 2 times in the scene
How 'Going Direct' Changes Everything: for Brands, Retail, Marketing, and Advertising
- ▶ 0:31 unnamed speaker Walmart or Macy's or, um, or Safeway.