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06-28-2003, 11:59 PM

you know, that dot com a few years ago, that broughr you your groceries to your house, home grocer or some shit.

they need to bring that shit back. homemunchies.com or some kind of minimart'ish like place that can bring be burritos. and twinkies and mt, dew, fresh from the fountain, and beef jerky, and cheetos, and doritos, and corn dogs, and m&m's, grandma's cookies. and beer, and smokes(if you drink or smoke) and fuckin tictac's and gum, and new porno mags, coffee and all that other great shit you pick up when your at the mini-mart.

imagine the opportunities if they legalized weed, you could get it delivered and place a munchies order.....

or imagine a BEER delivery service.
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06-29-2003, 12:00 AM

the beer thing is everwhere (at least where i'm from)...

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06-29-2003, 12:00 AM

www.kozmo.com ?

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06-29-2003, 12:01 AM

They still have that here, I forget what is called, but I always see the truck driving around.

But it is no Kozmo.com
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06-29-2003, 12:02 AM

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06-29-2003, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by quiet
the beer thing is everwhere (at least where i'm from)...

yea, where you come from.... that 3rd world country to the north!
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06-29-2003, 12:03 AM

Originally posted by Why
yea, where you come from.... that 3rd world country to the north!

so there is no online alcohol delivery in the US? you sure about that?

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06-29-2003, 12:06 AM

havent looked.
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06-29-2003, 12:06 AM

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06-29-2003, 12:07 AM

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havent looked.

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06-29-2003, 12:08 AM

They have a service in Hollywood called Pink Dot that's been doing great business for damn near 10 years. Beer, sandwiches, drugstore goods and most importantly condoms!

I wonder why they never expanded?

I've trusted my sites to them for over a decade...

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06-29-2003, 12:11 AM

Originally posted by thekebie
But it is no Kozmo.com

I'm pretty sure I alone kept kozmo - seattle, in business for a while
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06-29-2003, 12:44 AM

used to be WebVan in the Bay Area.... and yeah, they brought beer too..... I used to have them bring groceries all the time man.... it was awesome. Avoided going to the grocery store. Then they went tits up.

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06-29-2003, 12:51 AM

How would one go about setting up an operation like that, and how much would it cost. I guess you can start it with a van or two and expand , but what I'm concerned with is the website set up. How much would a site like that with a shopping cart go for and who around here ( GFY ) could put it together. Here in The Bahamas we don't have any and I would seriously give it a shot if the numbers looked good. I know there's a market for it here.
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06-29-2003, 12:57 AM

Originally posted by Bobby Vicious
How would one go about setting up an operation like that, and how much would it cost. I guess you can start it with a van or two and expand , but what I'm concerned with is the website set up. How much would a site like that with a shopping cart go for and who around here ( GFY ) could put it together. Here in The Bahamas we don't have any and I would seriously give it a shot if the numbers looked good. I know there's a market for it here.

would be pretty spendy to start up....

look at the basics:

you got your various site costs to get that all together, your actual physical space, your employees.... drivers, dispatchers, shoppers, etc, etc.... insurance for all them.... then the vehicles, and the insurance for them....

it's not an easy thing to do. WebVan had buckets of investor money, and they couldn't make it work, in a highly populated area that lives and breathes Internet convenience. (Silicon Valley)

The world simply isn't ready for it yet.

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06-29-2003, 12:59 AM

a large grocery chain here delivers. costs an extra $7 though.

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06-29-2003, 01:02 AM

Another company tried the same thing in the Bay Area, called Peapod. They too went under and pulled the plug.

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06-29-2003, 01:05 AM

We have one here called freshdirect.com

They onlys serve a small portion of Manhattan which is a small portion of NY. I guess the costs must be tremendous!

I've trusted my sites to them for over a decade...

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06-29-2003, 01:06 AM

I used WebVan in Santa Clara it was awesome.
Was pretty bummed when they went SOL.

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06-29-2003, 01:06 AM

I see the picture a little clearer now Amp
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06-29-2003, 01:13 AM

Originally posted by Why
you know, that dot com a few years ago, that broughr you your groceries to your house, home grocer or some shit.

they need to bring that shit back. homemunchies.com or some kind of minimart'ish like place that can bring be burritos. and twinkies and mt, dew, fresh from the fountain, and beef jerky, and cheetos, and doritos, and corn dogs, and m&m's, grandma's cookies. and beer, and smokes(if you drink or smoke) and fuckin tictac's and gum, and new porno mags, coffee and all that other great shit you pick up when your at the mini-mart.

imagine the opportunities if they legalized weed, you could get it delivered and place a munchies order.....

or imagine a BEER delivery service.

Hehe, come to denmark, we have a little place called Christiania.
http://www.christiania.org/
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06-29-2003, 01:53 AM

Amp, they might've pulled the plug in the Bay area, but PeaPod is still going strong in other spots (not near me, unfortunately). Sandra on MaxCash uses them religiously.

I think the true trick would be to make sure you're advertising as much as possible in your local area. Radio spots, flyers on doors, flyers in the walkway of the grocery stores with your URL & phone # on them for folks to take as they leave.
Keep it local, do heavy advertising locally and you should turn a pretty profit. Try to take it to markets that you're not familiar with (as most big companies like PeaPod and their investors do) and don't have any foot traffic advertising in, and you'll flop.

Target folks: infirm folks who stay at home and their family who has to come get them once a week to take them to the grocery store, folks who work at home, single parents, super-busy parents who would like to be able to spend more time at home with the kids than running errands, senior citizens who can't drive when it's light/dark out because of eye problems, etc.
And those markets *require* non-internet advertising - lots of it and so repetitive that they hate your ad but you're the first thing that pops into their head when they're sitting there wishing they had some sour cream.
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06-29-2003, 02:04 AM

the employee paymjent structure would not support this kind of business I think

a normal store would have 5 employees but will have around 500+ walk in customers a day.

To deliver to 500+ customers a day lets say a delivery guy can deliver one package every 20 minutes

3 packages a hour * 8 hours a day = 24 packages a day.

to deliver 500 packages, you'll need around 20 employees.

20 employees a month is * $1.5k = $35k a month
under OPTIMAL situations

Might as well just rent a shop for $8k less headaches.

just my small breakdown, but I'd like to see it happening too, probably might work in india where workforce is cheap though.

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