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Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by brushfoot »

I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist?

Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to convince businesses to integrate, and you'd have to become a household name to consumers. You'd have to write integrations for the menagerie of systems small businesses use, or else become key enough for them to switch.

Local makers could use it, too. I'd expect that'd become more important as things like 3D printing and working from home continue to grow.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by jarjoura »

amiga_500 wrote: post #32
ckdarby wrote: post #2

Damn it! I live in Quebec, this province makes everything extremely complicated and then wonders why most companies don't want to deal with them and most people leave. Went to buy insurance, couldn't because ToS lists countries couldn't do business with includes, Sadi, Iran, Iraq and Quebec. Most Canadian's know to live in this province only if you can maximize the gains from it. Buying a first time house, starting a…

I live in quebec. My kids go to a nice school. I live in a nice neighborhood. I get the nice metro to work. Or I cycle on the nice cycle network. I got my covid test, and result. I saw a really good doctor the same day. The same doctor rang me back 2 days later to check up on me at home. My kids would normally be in and out of a fantastic, modern library, or at the pool, or playing soccer in the great parks. Sadly th…

> If I go outside I'm not avoiding the homeless in huge numbers. Rent and housing are not absurdly expensive, allowing affordability for families.

In a recent trip to Montreal I never saw more homeless people out on the streets, and they were nasty and mean, demanding my attention. The shocking part was how cold it was outside and how the city allowed that to happen.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by EvenThisAcronym »

brushfoot wrote: post #41

I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist? Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to convince businesses to integrate, and you'd have to become a household name to consumers. You'd have to write integrations for the menagerie of systems small businesses use, or else become key…

We already have this for food: services like Skip The Dishes, Uber Eats, etc.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by thefounder »

brushfoot wrote: post #41

I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist? Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to convince businesses to integrate, and you'd have to become a household name to consumers. You'd have to write integrations for the menagerie of systems small businesses use, or else become key…

There was milo.com

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by tgtweak »

brushfoot wrote: post #41

I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist? Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to convince businesses to integrate, and you'd have to become a household name to consumers. You'd have to write integrations for the menagerie of systems small businesses use, or else become key…

Lightspeed (POS) is well positioned to offer this. They have all inventories, prices, skus, supplier prices (cost) and the scale to logistically implement this via the store management software they already have all merchants running.

You could order via their single portal, have it fulfilled from the nearest store, and then dispatch delivery and track it all in one place. Would be a one-click enable for most merchants. Many of them are not large enough to run a full online store, and there isn't enough consumer trust to buy from every mom and pop website our there (nor should there be).

Seems like a nice migration path for brick and mortar - like Uber eats but less predatory.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by seszett »

jefft255 wrote: post #37
jefft255 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed. French is definitely in decline in Louisiana and some efforts are being put in place https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/louisiana-french... . Similarly story for New Brunswick as far as I know. Those two are, to my knowledge, the biggest francophone regions outside Québec in North-America. Franco-Ontariens are not very happy either right now with Doug Ford cutting French services. I don't di…

Replying to seszett; You're right, I forgot about Haïti. Don't forget that they are their own country so they are not quite under the same amount of pressure than Québec or other French minorities in NA. Apart from that I don't really see your point; the other francophone territories in NA are mostly France's Territoires d'Outre Mer so of course they wouldn't feel that their French culture is under threat... Let's ju…

I was just saying that Quebec is not the only French speaking place in America, nothing more.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by MilnerRoute »

brushfoot wrote: post #41

I'd love to see an Amazon lookalike with solely local results. I.e., local stores list their inventories, accept payment, and do delivery. Does anything like that exist? Marketing and integration would be hurdles: You'd have to convince businesses to integrate, and you'd have to become a household name to consumers. You'd have to write integrations for the menagerie of systems small businesses use, or else become key…

BookShop.org is a confederation of independent bookstores into their own massive online book-selling site:

https://bookshop.org/

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by juskrey »

natalyarostova wrote: post #40
juskrey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you prefer local business employed and pay more for everything, or pay less for everything and have unemployed unhappy people around?

The former. That’s why I still hire our local horse-drawn-buggy service. Car purchasers have destroyed their industry and eliminated jobs.

I hope you at least purchase Chinese garlic, to not overload local dudes too much.

Re: A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

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Post by jefft255 »

seszett wrote: post #47
jefft255 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replying to seszett; You're right, I forgot about Haïti. Don't forget that they are their own country so they are not quite under the same amount of pressure than Québec or other French minorities in NA. Apart from that I don't really see your point; the other francophone territories in NA are mostly France's Territoires d'Outre Mer so of course they wouldn't feel that their French culture is under threat... Let's ju…

I was just saying that Quebec is not the only French speaking place in America, nothing more.

>> There are quite a few other French-speaking places in America and most of them are (or see themselves) under no cultural threat.

Well... This reads to me like you're saying something more.

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