Everything new is well forgotten old

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It is too early to sum up the year, because we have to wait until it is over. But it is time to outline the trends with which we are spending this year and will meet the new one. The coronavirus continues to affect our lives: the words “antibodies”, “anti-vaxxer”, “Q-code” and “vaccination” have firmly entered everyday speech, and many things, such as masks and handshakes, have acquired new meanings.

However, what seems new to us now, in fact, existed for a long time. History is cyclical: phenomena ukraine whatsapp list repeat themselves, but under different names and with some nuances. We decided to recall what issues Megaplan discussed in its useful articles and studies in the past year, find their reflections in the past and look into the future.

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Delivery
A series of lockdowns has led to explosive growth in the delivery sector. A study by the OMI agency says that the most common order amount in Russia in the outgoing year was 500-1000 rubles. Before the pandemic, it was at the level of 300-500 rubles. Interestingly, almost half of respondents name working conditions and satisfaction of couriers among the key issues when choosing a delivery service.

In our blog on Habr, we translated an American article about a female courier from the Instacart delivery service. Alice told us about the difficulties she faced when a soulless algorithm in the form of an all-powerful application became her boss. We recommend reading it.

Did you know that delivery was popular in our country at the beginning of the 20th century? There were no culinary shops like we are used to today, so ready-made food, for example for a festive table, could be ordered from a tavern or restaurant. Often, what guests did not finish eating in the establishments was also delivered to their homes. Itinerant trade was very popular. For example, piemen sold pies with filling directly from boxes hanging on their shoulders. The clients of such peddlers were those who came to large cities to earn money.

In the summer of 2021, the demand for couriers has grown more than threefold compared to last year. Everything is moving towards the fact that in the near future there will be more so-called dark stores and dark kitchens that work only for delivery. Due to this, click-to-delivery will grow in popularity, where the goods will be delivered in 15 minutes. Most likely, express delivery will not do without the help of robots, in some places they are already used to sort goods in warehouses. We will probably see unmanned delivery vehicles, and maybe even pneumatic pipelines for delivering orders to an apartment - why not.

Coffee shops
The restaurant business is having a hard time during the pandemic. We discussed this topic with restaurateurs Andrey Kovalev and Roman Stepanov in our business blog on the VC.ru website. The once popular coffee shop format can hardly be called mass today. And former coffee shop customers increasingly prefer to take coffee to go. The establishments themselves have turned into full-fledged cafes where you can not only drink a cup of aromatic coffee, but also have a hearty lunch.