One of the major door-to-door delivery folks in Germany is Hermes.
After the Christmas period this year.....virtually all of the delivery companies stood up and admitted that they had a lot of complaints. Folks are mostly gritting their teeth over how the system works....no matter what company is involved.
Hermes came up today and said it had a bold new idea. They were willing to give up on delivering to homes. Yep, a big shock. They said it'd better to have neighborhood or town shops set up, and you'd get this email to come by....to pick up your box.
I sat and thought about it, and have to agree....that's what people really want.
But they want a place that's open at 6AM and stays open until at least 9PM. Where would you find such a place? Local grocery operations.
But you'd have to develop a model....get the grocery folks to agree to a service...maybe a 30-cent fee for handling, and then sell the public on this idea.
Odds that Hermes will go to this concept? There's so much hostility brewing over delivery operations, that I don't see what you have to lose.
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