How to build an on-demand grocery delivery app
What e-commerce was to the product industry, Uberisation is to the service industry. While the concept of marketplaces has been around for a while now, it never really took off.
In case you’re unaware, marketplace is a platform that connects buyers with sellers, customers with service providers, job seekers meet employers etc.
So the question arises what benefits do marketplaces get in facilitating the trade between the two ends of a supply chain?
Well, there are many: they receive good traffic on their website, they can make a lot of money with website ads and they can always take a cut whenever a trade happens on their platform.
Grocery app US market growth
The grocery mobility solutions such as Instacart, Grofers and Bigbasket have already made a huge impact on the on-demand grocery market, hence there is no confusion in saying that the future of the grocery delivery mobile apps will continue to bloom in the coming years.
What does it take – on-demand grocery delivery?
For instant provisioning of a demanded person or thing, you must rely on local suppliers and service providers.
In case of grocery delivery, you have to strike a deal with a number of grocery store owners in each locality in your service area.
You can ask them for a discount over marked price or commission over the customer's billed amount.
In addition, you have to find a local delivery agency that would deliver the demand thing to the customer’s place.
They charge a fixed rate for each delivery or a percentage of the bill amount. To subdue the charges of the delivery agency, you can add delivery charges to a customer’s bill.
Uber for x concept: demand and supply
Uber for X model is the biggest driver of the sharing economy and is, itself, a superset of the on-demand economy.
A minimum of two players are part of the model, which is similar to marketplace, except users expect instant provisioning of their demand. At the end of the what matters is delivery, instant delivery in this model.
An Uber user demands a car at his location. An UberEATS user demands food at his home.
An Urbansitter user demands baby sitter and TaskRabbit user demands a plumber or electrician.
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