The Box Keeps Coming

Auditing a Meal-Kit Subscription's Per-Meal Premium Against the Grocery Shop It Replaces

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits 214 meal-kit subscriber households across three box tiers, pricing each against a matched grocery-equivalent basket and testing whether a randomised itemised cost breakdown changes cancellation. The subscription carries a 36-60% per-meal premium at every tier; the disclosure produces no detectable change in month-9 cancellation.

@misc{slop_fy3xp4,
  author       = {Marek Solheim and Renke Sabel},
  title        = {The Box Keeps Coming: Auditing a Meal-Kit Subscription's Per-Meal Premium Against the Grocery Shop It Replaces},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.fy3xp4},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-comparing-what-a-fy3xp4/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}