COMMUNITY FOOD DELIVERY tech innovation enabling SAME DAY home delivery of groceries to isolated consumers

冠状病毒危机凸显了英国现有零售食品分销模式的根本失败，即超市在为成千上万的家庭提供方便和即时的送货上门的食品/杂货方面的能力（以家庭总数百分比计算）令人惊讶地有限，这些家庭发现很难（如果不是不可能的话）亲自去超市或任何其他普通杂货店。该项目是一项商业创新，结合了新的和现有的技术和基础设施，使我们能够动员重要的非超市、区域食品批发企业，提供更加以客户为中心的杂货配送服务。我们的创新将保证第二天（预订）或当天（投机货车库存销售）将杂货送到孤立的家庭/消费者手中。在冠状病毒危机期间，英国每个地区等待超市送货时段长达数周，这令人痛苦和不安地凸显了我们试图解决的市场失灵问题。我们在英格兰西南部经营一家市场领先的新鲜食品批发业务。我们了解食品贸易和物流。我们可以证明，只要投入适量的资金，我们的想法很快就能在商业上证明自己的可行性。我们的目标是为那些受年龄、体弱多病和/或地理位置限制的孤立的、行动不便的/脆弱的消费者提供一种商业解决方案，这种解决方案模仿并改进了40多年前传统的“敲门”式的社区上门销售业务。注册（免费）让“商店上门”的家庭将在每周预定的日子收到杂货店货车到达他们所在地区的短信通知。客户所要做的就是点击“确认”。“杂货司机”会在完成他的巡视/路线的过程中安排对顾客的财产的访问，使顾客能够购买他们的各种杂货。整个交易将在司机和户主之间没有任何直接接触甚至密切互动的情况下进行。这一创新解决方案利用技术确保遵守“社交距离”要求。

The Coronavirus crisis has highlighted a fundamental failure of the existing retail food distribution model in the UK, i.e. that the Supermarkets have surprisingly limited capability (in total household %) in providing easy and immediate access to home delivered food/groceries to the thousands of households who find it difficult, if not impossible, to make a physical visit to a supermarket or any other general grocery store. This project is a business innovation that marries both new and existing technologies and infrastructure in such a way that will enable us to mobilise the significant non-supermarket, regional food wholesale businesses to provide a more customer-focussed grocery delivery service. Our innovation will guarantee NEXT-DAY (pre-order) or SAME-DAY (speculative van stock sale) home-delivered groceries to isolated households/consumers. The market failure that we seek to address has been painfully and distressingly highlighted by the weeks-long wait for supermarket delivery slots in every region of the UK during the Coronavirus crisis.We operate a market-leading wholesale fresh foods business in the far SW of England. We understand food trading and logistics. We can demonstrate that our idea, with the right amount of focused investment, would be quick to prove itself commercially viable.We aim to provide the isolated and immobile/vulnerable consumers whose access is constrained by age, infirmity and/or geography with a business solution that imitates and improves upon the old-school 'knock on the door' type of community door-to-door 'monger van sales operations that were the norm 40+ years ago.Households that sign-up (nil-cost) to have the 'shop come to them' would receive text notifications of the arrival of the grocery van in their area on the scheduled day(s) of the week. All the customer has to do is click 'confirm' to the text.. and the 'grocer-driver' would schedule in a visit to the customer's property in the course of completing his round/route, to enable the customer to buy their assorted groceries. The entire transaction would take place without any direct contact or even close interaction between the driver and the householder. This innovative solution utilises technology to ensure that 'social distancing' requirements are respected.