Could you get your pizza or Chinese food delivery via drone?
Re:Amazon Prime Air
by icebraining on Monday December 02, 2013 @12:56PM
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Yeah, for food I think it could actually work, if you had a startup like GrubHub handling the drones, which would just fetch the food from the chosen restaurant and deliver it.
1) Scale: a small store might not have enough sales to justify buying a single drone and training the staff to use it.
2) Regulation: licensing and certifications to be allowed to use these - particularly in a completely hands-off way - may have high fixed costs that a small store can't afford.
3) Lack of knowledge: most small store managers probably don't have any idea of how to set this up, or that it is even possible.
And in the end, why would you buy from the local mom-n-pop store? Nostalgia? Helping the people you know? I think that'd wear out pretty soon or just not work for many people.