Let people sell and deliver convenience store items from home. Stock wholesale items in garage and deliver it to your neighbourhood.
I'll assume you're talking about the Northern American market, and I'll ignore competing with actual convenience stores;
Hopefully that gives you a few things to consider.
My first thought is it sounds a lot like the myriad of apps already out there that do deliveries from pretty much any store. Why would I use your service over someone else in the space that's more established?
Also, I'd be a bit hesitant to buy stuff out of someones garage/home when I can get the same stuff from an actual store. I guess you could try and compete on price, but any retailer is already getting steep wholesale discounts, so I'm not sure there's much room to compete and still be profitable enough to make it worth it.
Out of the gate, sounds like it's doing too much. Is it a grocery delivery service that specializes in convenience store items (whatever "convenience store" items actually are vs. actual mega marts) or is it a hyper local (within a neighborhood / community) yard sale / sell your junk type platform?
Doesn't seem any different than using instacart / prime grocery / etc, in terms of the first part of the idea.
The second part isn't very unique either, I can already sell crap to my neighbors via Nextdoor.
The big barrier of entry to both of these ideas is that you have to have a decent network effect for it to work (you need both buyers and sellers, and only having one would spell doom). The competition in bother grocery store delivery stuff as as well selling / auctioning off neighbors, even at the niche hyper local level is going to be pretty tough.
Not impossible to break in, but if you can't get the network effect going (think thousands of users) you won't be able to break through. Tough road to travel IMHO.
Agree seems too broad. Suspect the only one making money would be the one selling to the people stocking their garages with stuff that never shifts. If you can think of a niche, something people always want, and get known for that, then maybe it could work. Find the "pizza" equivalent of "convenience store item".
Milk and bread is what is id buy all the time. The logical conclusion would be the 1980s British “milkman”
I would look into possible health & safety regulations relating to this idea. Since you're not dealing with perishable food a lot of rules may not apply, but there might be some issues with storage/tampering.
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Assume Uber/Amazon style where all the problems would be passed to the seller. A business model could be to whip up excitement in sellers, who buy a shed load of stuff from you, then struggle to sell it on. Not ethical but being played out repeatedly in various guises - e.g. who is making all the money from all the "city mobility scooters" popping up in many cities around the world?
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