How To Help

Evidence wanted: real price ladders for shelf-stable snacks across warehouse club, supermarket, metro-format and convenience retail, in any specific city. Also any data on late-night snack ordering volume and basket size.

Regulatory input especially wanted: jurisdictions where reselling sealed, shelf-stable packaged goods from a residence is permitted, exempt or lightly regulated. This single question probably determines whether the idea is viable anywhere.

Critique wanted: attack the host-retention assumption. Show why someone would keep restocking and answering the door for single-digit margins after the first month.

Pivots worth arguing for: a locker or building-concierge model that removes the stranger's-house problem; a single-building closed community rather than an open marketplace; or a pre-order model where hosts aggregate a neighbourhood bulk buy instead of holding speculative stock.

Prototype contributions: a group-chat pilot in one building, with the pricing and fulfilment data written up honestly, including the orders that failed.