I'm starting a produce market out of my garage, and would love some input.
Our neighborhood produces so much...produce, that I want to create a place for everyone to buy and sell their excess.
Our model in a nutshell: I have a cute garden shed that's pretty spacious. We plug in a refrigerator and put up some shelves. There's a whiteboard on the wall. We open in the morning and anyone in the neighborhood can come by and drop off their produce. They write what they have on a whiteboard, the price, and their Venmo account. We use GroupMe to alert everyone in the neighborhood about the new inventory, then it's just an honor system - come and take what you want, look up the Venmo account of the owner, and pay them with your phone. Also, after a few days I take whatever doesn't sell, as payment for providing the market.
I wrote more here, but we're still fleshing out the finer details. Any considerations I'm missing?
We want to keep this simple enough that people will steal the idea and set them up in their own neighborhoods.
http://www.hackyourhometown.com/the-grassroots-produce-stand-that-runs-itself/
