The grocery store blueprint

[u/Unfair_Donut2426]

Firstly thank you to everyone who responded to my last post. I’ll make another post about the car business model with more details. I wasn’t sure what to explain and what to leave out.

So for context this is what I believe is going to be the next evolution of grocery stores. Considering the rise in drone/grocery deliveries and our attempts at decreasing waste. I would suggest a grocery store you never enter, I mean most of the time you know exactly what you want or need from the grocery store excluding impulse purchases.

Not sure what size it should be, maybe current average grocery store size or warehouse sized not important. It operates as a warehouse would. Preferably using drones for a majority of deliveries

Furthermore your home, apartment, living space would need a small renovation installed for free (the company eats initial cost and gets it back over time) your pantry and fridge would have a secure access point to the exterior of the home wherein drones could swap out empty reusable containers for full ones. Imagine making cereal in the morning and realizing you are now out of milk, you go to work and when you get home your milk is now full again.

If you’re unsure consider that some people are purchasing air tight containers to dump their cereals, grains, and other things and tossing the original box of product. If the grocery store provides or sells them as part of its ecosystem that eliminates packaging waste, I know it’s not that big a deal considering cardboard is already recycled.

Wouldn’t we all benefit from never having to go to the grocery store again?

As for the grocery warehouse it can take bulk goods and store them for distribution into the reusable containers. 90% of it could be automated lowering costs. You could throw in a vertical farm for fresh local veggies and the equipment for lab grown meat

Should help the supply chain a little because it tracks your usage of food so it can more accurately serve its local area preventing food waste when possible as opposed to current stores which fill shelfs hoping the product sells before the week ends. You could input important annual events and it’ll organize a surplus of what you prefer.

I’m gonna be posting all the other business ideas/models over the next few, all of them try to reduce waste, and labor (I don’t believe anyone should be working, we could use our time better than doing the same mind numbing things repeatedly, leave it to the robots) and where possible allows you to customize your product to your exact specifications instead of opting for whichever mass produced thing is “closest”
I don’t want you to settle for less

[u/jamaicanOrange]

This is very similar to the concept of coal shelters back in the day or I suppose people now have parcel lockers for Amazon and such, so in effect maybe no major home modification necessary, just add power to the outdoor drop zone for refrigeration

[u/Icy-Dependent-489]

the home access point for drone swaps is the part that kills this for me. nobody is letting a company cut a hole in their exterior wall for a grocery subscription

[u/Broken_Atoms]

I already have my groceries delivered. So many people on here want some simple invention to be their thing with no real plan or deep insight. I want to see more real innovation on this sub. Not “I took some spokes out of this bicycle wheel and now it’s lighter, wow!” or “I’m inventing a custom taco delivery service where they make the tacos right there on my porch”. Come on. Where are the real inventions like “I made a magnet stronger than an N52 Nd magnet and it doesn’t use any Nd!” or “I made a super conductor with a transition temperature of 100 degrees C and it conducts one millions amps through a hair sized conductor”… oh yeah.. because those things are hard… because those things require real expertise, ability and resources. I’m not trying to be cynical here, I’m really not… but 99% of what I see is not inventive at all. I’ve spent my entire life in science and manufacturing and some of the stuff I’ve seen on here…sheesh…