Suburbs
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2021
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Xu: Suburban delivery economics beat cities due to family basket sizes
“Where in the places outside of city centers, the suburbs, you tended to have a greater percentage of families, which have more mouths to feed. As a result, you tended to have higher baskets. Higher baskets meant larger revenues. You also tended to have easier …”
Lin: Food delivery creates more value in suburbs than in dense cities
“The value for someone who lives in the suburbs and have to drive 20 minutes to go get their food is higher than someone that can go from their apartment, go downstairs and walk a few blocks and get the food and bring it back home.”
DoorDash used suburban market profits to fund its major city expansion
“There's the reason why small towns, there's a main street where everything happens, and so then you start realizing that the density problem is not as complicated as you might think, and they won because they were able to take the profits of the suburbs to go …”