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@davewil1964 wrote:

I was thinking the means to order locally online non-essential items - being local would mean fast delivery at low cost

 

You keep on about this. Who pays for their petrol and the wages of the deliverer? Especially if there is only one item delivered? A given most of the time if fast is a criterion.

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The person that orders the item  ?

I will state the obvious

How much does a home delivered pizza cost in your location and does that stop the ordering thereof ?

With hardware items consolidation would lower the delivery cost per item having two delivery cycles - one late morning , the other late afternoon - with some delivery cost to business already paid for by using exisiting staff that are currently idle (initially via job keeper) 

One local store , local online ordering via local sales portal ( virtual shop in 3D comlpete with virtual sales assistant ) , delivery by existing staff ( with local business association approval) - staff being certified covid-19 free 

Nothing new but just an online sales service expanded to discrete local suburban/town stores for local people so as to reduce the need to leave the premises and also enable sourcing of "non-essential" items without harassment and improve "non-essential"stores cashflows

The sourcing of "non-essential" items to maintain or develop interests , and so emotional health, will become more critical as the weeks in unnatural isolation grinds on , particularly for those within stage 4 regions 

A musing from a parallel reality Australia