Groceries
Over time, grocery retail has evolved:
- Open air markets
- Grocers (shops)
- Big supermarkets
- Decentralised chain grocers
- Online shopping & delivery
Mobile Retail
There is one more model: the mobile grocer
- The shop is based off a bike, van or truck
- The shop comes to the customer vs customer goes to the shop
- It is decentralised stores taken one step further
- Was once popular in the Far East (until big supermarts emerged)
- This article says GroceryNeighbour is the first such in the world
- This is correct in the sense GN is innovatively paired with an app
- App: routes, arrival times, specialty orders, stock availability etc
- Solves: ecommerce inaccessibility or tedium, underserved suburbs or communities, venturing out while bugzilla is around
Notes
- Western mobile grocers have an aisle for all weather shopping
- Eastern ones save on the aisle & have outward facing shelves
- For bug fighting, non-enclosed space is better, or pre-order for pickup or drop-off