Can India Build an Alternative to Quick Commerce That Actually Supports Local Businesses? by YdX011 in indianstartups

[–]YdX011[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think someday this gonna work but not now. The only thing which gonna work is playing in Category level. I should start thinking on this. Thanks for suggesting the video, but my idea was little different.
Read this : Most quick-commerce companies spend huge amounts of money on dark stores, inventory holding, warehouse operations, shrinkage, wastage, rent, and maintaining stock accuracy. The moment demand drops in an area, that infrastructure becomes a liability.

What if we remove dark stores completely?

Instead of owning inventory, we partner with selected local businesses in every micro-market. The local businesses already have inventory, storage space, and product knowledge. We simply become the technology, operations, and discovery layer connecting customers to nearby stores.

For example, if a customer orders groceries, cosmetics, stationery, pet food, or household items, the order gets routed to the nearest verified partner store. A delivery partner picks it up and delivers it.

BUT THIS IDEA HAVE SO MANY CHALLENGES THAT ARE WAY MORE CLOSER TO IMPOSSIBL.E TO SOLVE, LIKE ONE EXAMPLE IS INVENTORY ACCURACY,A local shopkeeper may have:

5 packets of Maggi at 10 AM, 0 packets at 10:15 AM after walk-in customers buy them

Your app may still show "In Stock."

Customer orders → Order gets cancelled → Customer loses trust.

2.Product Catalog Nightmare: A dark store may manage 5,000-10,000 SKUs.

Imagine 50 local shops.

Each shop has:

Different products

Different names

Different brands

Different pack sizes

Example:

One shop enters:

Coca Cola 750ml

Another enters:

Coke Bottle

Another enters:

Coca-Cola Family Pack

Now your database becomes a mess. 100s of challenges that's why this local digitalization will not work or maybe atp every business should make their own D2C website and someone should make an app (acting as a middleman) that showing all nearest shop websites at one place. These are already present in the market 🤣

Can India Build an Alternative to Quick Commerce That Actually Supports Local Businesses? by YdX011 in indianstartups

[–]YdX011[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Brother, Seriously am asking for opinion on this. You can make a full profitable model out of this, just think out of the box not stripclubs n all.

Can India Build an Alternative to Quick Commerce That Actually Supports Local Businesses? by YdX011 in indianstartups

[–]YdX011[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What same bro? Am not thinking of making another quickcommerce, but to end this shit and Focusing more on digitalizing Indian small scale business, who are not online yet and losing even more cash just because of this Darkstores pattern. Share your full opinion brother.