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1. Sharing economy makes use of underutilized or idle resources and is mostly focused on peer –peer interaction. This encourages human interaction and trust among individuals and empowers them to be more open by increasing their humanness and encouraging collaboration. This system decentralizes power to distributed networks empowering communities as well as individuals.
2. Sharing economies prevent people from getting real jobs which negatively affect regular economy. It lowers the value of traditional jobs and makes it less profitable. It might also render old traditional jobs obsolete (full time taxi being replaced by Uber) and probably adds to the growing rate of full time unemployment. Sharing economy seems to be built more on making money than trust. This lucrative easy money making method has led to many unemployed people, who are victims of damaged …show more content…

Blue Apron: (1) Blue Apron is an online meal subscription service that delivers a pre-selected choice of meals every week with their recipes and pre-proportioned ingredients. (2) Blue Apron creates a meal plan, supplies the grocery for each mean along with their recipes directly to the customer, reducing the need for the customer to plan and execute it. It eliminates the need to visit grocery stores or search for recipe cookbooks/online recipe searches. Blue Apron collaborates with farmers and retailers to source grocery products which are then sent to the customer thus disrupting the grocery supply chain industry. (3) Blue Apron does not send a chef over nor does it deliver cooked meals. It sends all the ingredients needed to make a meal along with the recipes. It is perfect for people who wish to cook and enjoy variety of food. (4) Blue Apron’s subscription based model allows it to forecast demand accurately and provide high service from the suppliers to buyers. This business model minimizes wastage of food and reduces the overall cost. The operations are effective supply chain and efficient

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