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RelayFoods.com

Laseter, Timothy M...

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RelayFoods.com

Laseter, Timothy M.

OM-1431 | Published August 25, 2011 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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In less than two years, the founders' innovative model for addressing last-mile challenges in an online grocery retailing operation was working. Although still consuming cash, the three-month-old pilot expansion to another city was experiencing three-digit monthly sales growth. To date, the company had followed a philosophy of low-cost experimentation, as it explored terrain that had been inhospitable to its predecessors. But now Relay needed to make some changes in its operations strategy.

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