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Love the idea,but how do you handle support,customer-shopper arbitration(either side claiming the delivery did or did not happen for example),really bad custom
by badrabbit 7y ago
Love the idea,but how do you handle support,customer-shopper arbitration(either side claiming the delivery did or did not happen for example),really bad customers/shoppers (basically quality) without central management?
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.
- sumeetk 7y agoWe 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 !
- badrabbit 7y agoWhat 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.
- sumeetk 7y agoSure ! ... we will be glad to hear from you ... You can contact us at our forum https://forum.nearbyshops.org/ https://forum.nearbyshops.org/ Create a new thread we will reply to you !