Re:Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Sh...
by sumeetk on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:10AM
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We are considering forming cooperative's of local vendors who will do all the management.
There will be multiple local market instance each managed by a separate cooperative.
There is no central management ... its a distributed platform !
Re:Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Sh...
by badrabbit on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:06AM
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What is the best way to contact your team? I know local people that were doing "instacart" before it was a thing at a small local scale who might be interested.
Re:Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Sh...
by sumeetk on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:06AM
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Sure ! ... we will be glad to hear from you ...
You can contact us at our forum https://forum.nearbyshops.org/
Create a new thread we will reply to you !
Another solution would be to have a separate pickup location where shoppers drop it off at that location and customers would pick it up at a different date. This helps people that want the convenience but also it helps eliminate "food deserts". If say whole foods is 10miles away,the grocery is delivered 5 milea away, that means people that consider 10 miles too far can now pick it up at a closer location. I think this whole idea has potential at a larger scale, I would love to order stuff from amazon or ebay and have it delivered at someone else's house where I can pick it up later -- one more layer of privacy if I use gift cards and the like to shop they will never need to know my name,phone and address directly. Storage providers can charge by the hour/minute.