[tabco]

Originally Posted by noral

Hi everyone im new to the forums and i wanted to share the start up me and few of my family members are started is called Groceryone.com Well What Groceryone.com will be is an Online Grocery store. With all the high gas prices it's harder for people to goto grocery shopping. What we will offer is Overnight shipping on all orders for 5.00 Thats cheaper than group shipping and is a hole lot cheaper than driving to the store. We will offer all products that you could find in any store you can goto, we will even ship meat products overnight also. We have a warehouse where we will be shipping our products from and a will be launching a state of the art website within a few months. We have taken surveys around our local area's and found that people would buy grocery over the internet if they can get it asap. We know we may take a little loss over shipping costs but we plan to make it up with the number of orders we will receive. We also we sell small electronic products maybe DVD's CD's and a few other products you may find at a grocery store. So what im asking for YE Members is to give me a little input and let me know what you think. Do you think this will work? Do you think it have a chance? So please let me know.

All I can say is MASS advertisement would be the key to success. People will pay for it, but you better have one hell of an ad campaign and a serious strategy to back it up. Best of luck to you... The community is here to help

[noral]

Thanks everyone for your input. Everyone has been giving me good ideas but im really liking the idea of charging a Special optional member for of say what 9.99 to maybe 14.99 to get special deals and prices. Im going to sit down with my partners and we're going to discuss everything

[ChrisBenjamin]

Umm, welcome to 2001?
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Note the word Bankrupt in that write up.

Sorry.

[0Googler0]

This idea has been tried many times and it has been adopted by some of the grocery stores individually by having their own sites.

One of the main problems for this is the issue of fresh fruits/veggies and how buying blind is difficult for many people. Also you will lose the business of people that want to run out to the store for milk and end up buying what they need for a week.

[Warranties-For-Less]

Originally Posted by noral

Hi everyone im new to the forums and i wanted to share the start up me and few of my family members are started is called Groceryone.com Well What Groceryone.com will be is an Online Grocery store. With all the high gas prices it's harder for people to goto grocery shopping. What we will offer is Overnight shipping on all orders for 5.00 Thats cheaper than group shipping and is a hole lot cheaper than driving to the store. We will offer all products that you could find in any store you can goto, we will even ship meat products overnight also. We have a warehouse where we will be shipping our products from and a will be launching a state of the art website within a few months. We have taken surveys around our local area's and found that people would buy grocery over the internet if they can get it asap. We know we may take a little loss over shipping costs but we plan to make it up with the number of orders we will receive. We also we sell small electronic products maybe DVD's CD's and a few other products you may find at a grocery store. So what im asking for YE Members is to give me a little input and let me know what you think. Do you think this will work? Do you think it have a chance? So please let me know.

Interesting,

I was before my time with concept back in the late 80's, tried it, but not enough people to make a profit, then tried again in the 90's, did better with the concept because we infused it with word of mouth network marketing, you may remember it as The Grocery Club. Did pretty well, but distribution and shipping were an issue, but now that gas is through the roof, I do believe you have a shot at success. I was capitalizing on the dual income family trends, convenience factor, so there is a niche out there, just look at some of the others who have succeeded, so good luck.

Regards, Mike

[noral]

i just wanted to bump this and let everyone that this is going into full effect very soon and would like to thank everyone for the input and advice they giving me.

[Gaulkin]

Publix, a HUGE chain grocery store did this exact thing for 4 years and NEVER turned a profit.... That should tell you something about what your trying to do.

[samo]

Pretty risky venture in my opinion. I remember many attempts at delivered grocery in the states about a decade back and all of them died out within 2-3 years from what I remember. Go for it!

[bizdev]

We have Pea Pod (or some such name) in my area. I researched the franchise and concluded there was not going to be much money in it. Their business model has local franchise owners doing local deliveries.

I don't get how you plan to make a profit. If you're already taking a loss in shipping and you can't possibly mark up the food by 50% (where does the customer save by ordering from you?)...where do you make your money?

And again, how in the world are you planning to deliver perishible food with UPS and such?

Sounds like you may need to reconsider.

[Gaulkin]

He says its already underway, apparently he didn't do much homework. Just because no one is in that market doesn't make it a good market to get into.