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NY Times Groks Gopuff Model

Dear Client: Stuff is heavy. And hard and expensive to move around. As the New York Times told us last week, "Delivery — with high labor and transportation costs, stiff competition and lofty marketing expenses — is notoriously expensive and logistically complicated to provide and make money on." Finally, somebody said it. And according to this report in NYTimes.com, quick delivery startup Gopuff's model of owning it's inventory and warehousing is under stress, as it has laid off nother 450

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