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I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like th

I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist? Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to convince businesses to integrate, and you'd have to become a household name to consumers. You'd have to write integrations for the menagerie of systems small businesses use, or else become key enough for them to switch. Local makers could use it, too. I'd expect that'd become more important as things like 3D printing and working from home continue to grow.

thefounder 6y ago
There was milo.com
EvenThisAcronym 6y ago
We already have this for food: services like Skip The Dishes, Uber Eats, etc.
tgtweak 6y ago
Lightspeed (POS) is well positioned to offer this. They have all inventories, prices, skus, supplier prices (cost) and the scale to logistically implement this via the store management software they already have all merchants running. You could order via their single portal, have it fulfilled from the nearest store, and then dispatch delivery and track it all in one place. Would be a one-click enable for most merchants. Many of them are not large enough to run a full online store, and there isn't enough consumer trust to buy from every mom and pop website our there (nor should there be). Seems like a nice migration path for brick and mortar - like Uber eats but less predatory.
- thbr99 6y ago
  Marketing speak. Do you work there ?
  - tgtweak 6y ago
    No but they're one of the biggest I know in this space and I know a few people that have worked there.
MilnerRoute 6y ago
BookShop.org is a confederation of independent bookstores into their own massive online book-selling site: https://bookshop.org/ https://bookshop.org/
paxys 6y ago
You are talking about two very different retail models. Few local stores actually manufacture goods. They are getting their stuff from a wholesale supplier, same as Amazon and other online stores. Your online package coming from a physical store in a premium retail location is just going to add extra cost and inefficiency to the process.

thefounder 6y ago

There was milo.com

EvenThisAcronym 6y ago

We already have this for food: services like Skip The Dishes, Uber Eats, etc.

tgtweak 6y ago

Lightspeed (POS) is well positioned to offer this. They have all inventories, prices, skus, supplier prices (cost) and the scale to logistically implement this via the store management software they already have all merchants running. You could order via their single portal, have it fulfilled from the nearest store, and then dispatch delivery and track it all in one place. Would be a one-click enable for most merchants. Many of them are not large enough to run a full online store, and there isn't enough consumer trust to buy from every mom and pop website our there (nor should there be). Seems like a nice migration path for brick and mortar - like Uber eats but less predatory.

thbr99 6y ago
Marketing speak. Do you work there ?
- tgtweak 6y ago
  No but they're one of the biggest I know in this space and I know a few people that have worked there.

MilnerRoute 6y ago

BookShop.org is a confederation of independent bookstores into their own massive online book-selling site: https://bookshop.org/ https://bookshop.org/

paxys 6y ago

You are talking about two very different retail models. Few local stores actually manufacture goods. They are getting their stuff from a wholesale supplier, same as Amazon and other online stores. Your online package coming from a physical store in a premium retail location is just going to add extra cost and inefficiency to the process.