how do you plan to monetize?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strange question - Is there a reason it is still done this way? Are there entrenched distributors and commissioned sales reps that are incentivized to keep things the same way? Many wholesale & distributor businesses seem to operate this way, but the reason is rarely due to lack of available technology solutions... Just a thought worth thinking about.
The sales reps could see it as a threat depending on how it works with them. We always say that there is a place for good sales reps, we just don't want them to be glorified order takers. You do also have a lot of old school distributor owners that view sales reps as hand to hand combat and are afraid of losing that touch point.
Sounded like it's straight out of The Office.
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#33I like the idea and a point-of-sale like system seems like it would make a good product.
A couple years ago a new bar opened up across the street from me. At the same time, a liquor store down the street was going out of business and put most of the liquor on clearance. The new bar owner filled me in on the state of liquor in Massachusetts. Apparently the system is super controlled by distributors. Even if he wanted to go down to the liquor store and buy 100 bottles of liquor on clearance, he couldn't. He can only buy through a licensed distributor. Some of the liquor he stocked was actually more expensive through the distributor than it was from retail liquor stores in the area. The industry has special controls in place, like special caps on dealer-distributed liquor. He joked about buying some of the clearance liquor and pouring it into the bottles. It was pretty clear that I was paying higher prices because of the distributor-controlled market.
Massachusetts seems to have some of the most strict alcohol laws around. Unlike neighboring states like New Hampshire, we can't order wine from wherever we want online. This means that many of the wines that I'd like to drink aren't available to me since no one in the area distributes them. Some people get around this by shipping wine to friends in nearby states or by traveling to places and shipping cases back via UPS marked "tiles + olive oil".
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#34Are you aware of / how are you different than BevSpot (https://www.bevspot.com/)?
They seem to be solving this problem from the restaurant management side, which builds the demand-side of the marketplace, making it easier for them to sell distributors on the supply side: https://www.bevspot.com/distributors/
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#35How far along are you?
Why did you pick this idea to work on?
PS Nice TLD.