They also have shut down the last of the big pneumatic tube networks in Prague as of 2002 due to flood damage.
In the US home delivery of food is rather uncommon. One of the more spectacular e-business failures was this shopping for food website due to the high bulk and low profit margins of that business. I looked up the biggest categories, by dollar value of things sold through online, catalog, and phone sales and subsequent delivery via whatever system and I found that the biggest dollar values were computer hardware, apparel and accessories, pet supplies, and cosmetics. An in place system would logically be exploited by the higher margin fast food industry, but food like what would be purchased at a grocery store seems unlikely to me.
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In the US home delivery of food is rather uncommon. One of the more spectacular e-business failures was this shopping for food website due to the high bulk and low profit margins of that business. I looked up the biggest categories, by dollar value of things sold through online, catalog, and phone sales and subsequent delivery via whatever system and I found that the biggest dollar values were computer hardware, apparel and accessories, pet supplies, and cosmetics. An in place system would logically be exploited by the higher margin fast food industry, but food like what would be purchased at a grocery store seems unlikely to me.