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[โ€“] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

My solarpunk dream is to stop receiving junk mail made of plasticized paper.

Hot take:

Packages though? Just have a Pickup store. Its part warehouse, part store, and you can get help finding and grabbing your boxes, or do it yourself. Is it a bit like a grocery store? I think so.

Problems to solve:

I hope one day we can get brick and mortar stores that sell products people want. I walked into a hardware store recently that had on their website multiple versions of the item I wanted, in stock at this store. Get there and they do not have what I'm looking for. ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

Also ordered two items from a big box and delivery defaults to sending it to the store. So I have one item, but not the other. The item at the store cost $3, so I don't care? It's theirs now.

My proposed solution:

What if, in an anarchist way, we had an open source service that keeps track of what is in stock in a store? You just scan items as you go and they are kept track of.