I apologize for not being more specific, I’m not interested in a centralized delivery system. I just want vendors to have their inventories posted online (as usual), but for them to be aggregated by category and filterable in one location without depending on a dystopian tech company. MAYBE have a frontend to appear as though everything is centralized, but I would be indifferent
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Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not entirely sure you’d want that, tbh.
Think about how logistics work, and how fuel has to be spent. You don’t want a decentralized network for physical goods. That’s extremely inefficient and wasteful.
Even if it’s just about the final point of sale… we kinda already have these aggregations of individual merchant stalls? We call them “malls” mostly, nowadays, or “markets”, depending on type. They exist, but keep in mind that a lot of stuff is centralized behind the scenes, be it maintenance, logistics or chains.
LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aaaah, okay. I keep thinking I heard of exactly this in the German city of Hamburg before, or even the entire area. But I can’t find anything about it right now. But I’m sure I had heard of this. There was like this meta-shopping-system, and then the orders were fulfilled by each company individually, they just pooled their catalogues basically.
Tibert@compuverse.uk 1 year ago
There are malls, markets, things like that. These are just the front end for the customers to buy things, the retailer.
As you said there are centralisation behind. Either through the same company managing all those different malls, or through Wholesalers working in the background selling to a lot of retailers.