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		rosser on May 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016) If the people running these shops are eschewing credit cards as part of their cost-cutting, what could possibly possess you to think that "disrupting" them with some other form of middle-man is going to play here?

frandroid on May 2, 2017 [–]

> I'm wondering if there's an opportunity for a tech startup to replicate this network more generally.

The goal is not to compete with Chinatown grocers, but to move their model to other markets.

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