Economy food store II

This is in response to very real objection to Economy food store (see link) Idea.

// People in circumstances which require extreme economy may have difficulty getting to this dedicated store. — bungston, Sep 12 2008 //

So instead of the poor going to the store, the store goes to them... at least halfway. Here's one way to do that.

So you start up as a single store selling cheap food and whatever else you need to sell to stay solvent. Then you set up a bunch of branch stores that start out as just vending machines selling rice and beans and other cheap fuel (and sodas if need be to stay solvent). Placement: Think end a subway platform where space is cheap. Or on large company parking lot.

At some point you upgrade the vending machine to take much more complex orders and graft a series of machine controlled small lockers next to it. Patrons place orders for what is in the main store via the vending machine or over the Internet and pickup their order the next day from the vending machine locker. Since the delivery drivers only haul to the vending machine --- the deliveries are consolidated and routine.

And you put a couple of machines on Park Avenue and Rodeo Drive for the publicity.