Drizly, the Latest Delivery Casualty

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So we got ourselves another delivery casualty, another one going by the wayside. Drizzly, if you’re not familiar with Drizzly, they deliver alcohol. Yes, they do. Uber bought them again. Oh, man, what a loss. They bought them for $1.1 billion in 2021. Drizzly has been around since I know 2012 2013.

But again, another one of these bright, shiny objects to these larger tech companies that just have money to burn that they probably shouldn’t be burning. But again, you think about the concept of it itself, they deliver booze to your house. What could possibly go wrong there? Anyway, you know, again, you know, someone who likes to entertain, I’m not.

going to go online and have alcohol delivered to the house. Gotta have somebody there. It is all sorts of things that they put in place, I guess to prevent youngsters from getting their hands on it. Not really. Anyway, true story, true story. I have a little fun with this. Why I’m actually brought this up today. This is two years ago. Two years ago, at my mother in law who speaks in very broken

English, Chris, Nico, it’s my son, Nico, he said he need my driver’s license for something. I don’t know what this all about, but she, I mean, she’s neither here nor there. And I’m, I said, what is she talking about? I’m trying to like comprehend here. And I’m thinking, and Nico’s not home at the time, and I’m putting two and two together here. I’m like, that little shit.

I said, and then I figured out exactly what he was doing. Yeah, he needed a driver’s license so he could order alcohol from Drizzly. It turns out my kid was kind of a bit of a purveyor for a period of time there for some of the kids and his friend group. Let’s just leave it at that. And I actually, he was running kind of a business sort of, and then I talked to my buddies about it and our friend group and the dads.

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they’re all kids play sports all together and they were like, ah, that’s great. They were giving it a golf clap. They’re gonna hire that kid as smart little business move that he made there. But yeah, that they supposedly had some sort of proprietary ID technology that allowed retailers to verify a customer’s let me tell you something. My youngest son looks nothing like my mother in law, he was able to pull it off. Anyway, Watchdog on wallstreet.com.