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Ask HN: Seeking open source grocery inventory database
I would be interested in building such a DB with others but I am asking because I am trying to start a grocery delivery business.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoThere is none, that I'm aware of -- and I've worked with IT for a couple of grocery markets. Building such a database system will be trivial. They don't need anything fancy. HOWEVER: your big stumbling blocks will be integration with NCR and other very, very proprietary hardware; and adoption. Once a store has a system in place, they're very reluctant to mess with it, because the systems are fragile and downtime can cost a lot of money in a hurry. If you get curious about how to hack older NCR market systems, let me know. Email's in my profile.
- hsmyers 16y agoAt a guess, you won't see such a beast in the wild because unlike the rest of a typical general ledger business package, inventories tend to be customized for the particular customer. This before any effort to involve point of sale hardware/software.
- karanbhangui 16y agoClosest thing i can think of is the Tesco API: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/tesco http://www.programmableweb.com/api/tesco edit: also, keep in mind the story of Webvan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan