Product idea: the State of Georgia has at least two big farmers markets, Macon and Atlanta, probably others. I don’t go because I don’t know what they have. I’m guessing sellers don’t come because they don’t have solid buyers.
My proposal would be to get sellers to list what they have for sale, how much, and the price. This would get posted to Craigslist, Facebook, Nextdoor, etc. It would possibly spur people to come buy. A way to get sellers to self-post: they text photos and info to a number, or we give them an app to post with.
Monetizing: Whatnot sales of items, or a way for people to place orders through the app. Handle payments and pass orders to sellers to prep. Possibly handle delivery: $X inside the Perimeter, $X outside, etc. Or come along and offer to buy the whole lot from them, and sell at a markup, either locally or through the Whatnot app. Could take this multiple ways. Also see this with Flow.
Bulk grocery. 10+ years ago, a non-profit based in Macon, I think, would buy bulk grocery commodities (flour, corn meal, etc.) and sell the food stuffs mainly through churches. A list for the week would be distributed. They would come up with that list by seeing what was cheapest on the market. Get the bulk items in, repack them into small bags, and package them for the packs. They would then deliver the bulk orders to the church for distribution. The buyers would save close to 40% off expensive retail, and the company made a healthy profit.
They ran afoul because they organized the company as a non-profit, and they abused the non-profit status of the company, buying cars, houses and other luxury goods.
Is something like this even still possible and profitable? Buy bulk commodity foods, repackage, and recruit churches and other community-based orgs to do the final distribution. Expand from there to larger areas and foods. Produce, in my opinion, seems ripe for this, because of batch rejection.
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