this is going to be a new thing here in Southern California. Is this occurring anywhere else? How is it working? http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydi...h-local-ipas-to-your-door-20150116-story.html
Haven't seen anything like that here in New England yet. With the popularity of Instacart and Google Express, wouldn't surprise me to see those operations try to add pick ups from local breweries.
If you live in DC and want 100 cases of Bud Light, there's an app for that... Boston, NYC, Seattle and DC residents can also enjoy MillerCoors delivered... http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/bud-light-delivery-app/ I agree is seems like a real opportunity for someone already working on the logistics of home delivery of stuff. Fresh local growlers would be an awesome addition to someone like Grubhub...
Certain stores will do that around here (normally with minimum orders and so forth.) I don't know what the logistics would be for independent businesses - I guess it would depend on the licencing - are they listed as retailers, distributors, or something else? I guess just thinking logically, they would be retailers, but without a "storefront" - they would of course need some sort of warehouse to store everything, and a fleet of trucks or some such. There could theoretically be something like personal shoppers, but concentrating on booze instead of anything else. I would think that would run into all sorts of other questions and legalities, not to mention insurance and liability questions.
If and when NYC gets overwhelmed with quality local breweries producing in large quantities, I could see this working due to everyone's approximate closeness. That said, few local breweries are dealing with "excess stock" of any kind, and most are racing to keep pace with demand.
This seems nothing more than a website (like so many out there) getting some beer in stock, and having it available to "buy and ship to your door". It's not like a milk delivery service, or Amazon getting involved with "right to your door" delivery services. Color me confused. Hype piece for both brewery and website. Next wave stuff that would never happen is the actual brewery or distributor being allowed to deliver to your house, like I see with the daily newspaper and even organic produce. Alcohol laws would prohibit all of that stuff. These websites have a nice little loophole I would say
Not legal? So my pop was breaking the law when he first met my mom? (Why do you think my older sister's nickname was "Sunshine" - my folks weren't no hippies.).
When I was young most of the liquor stores had home delivery. I guess it's still legal but none seem to now.
