Here’s an article about one of the ways start ups can improve our society. The start up the article describes is trying to make it cheaper get food delivered to your door than shop at the local grocery store. Some of the societal benefits it mentions are that, if it works, it will incentivize home cooking and eating healthier by making it less costly in terms of both time and money. It also suggests this business can help smaller stores compete with mega-corporations like amazon and Walmart.
This article about Amazon’s new automated grocery store might present one answer of mega-corporations to this new business model:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-store/amazons-automated-grocery-store-of-the-future-opens-monday-idUSKBN1FA0RL
I am definitely in support of stream-lining the grocery process and especially its healthy effects. I wonder if hunger while grocery shopping will still be as impactful on what you buy if it is online. Perhaps not physically seeing the food would lead to rationality?