City launches local delivery service
The mayor announced the launch of a local delivery service Monday, following Quebec’s recent announcement of its Panier Bleu plan to stimulate local spending. The city’s plan should make it easier for local businesses to reach buyers without contact being needed.
Blork 17:57 on 2020-04-06 Permalink
The Panier Bleu is a great idea, and it looks nice on the surface, but putting together something of that scope is a huge project. We’re seeing it deveop in real time, which is both interesting and frustrating. Currently if you search by specific location (e.g., “Longueuil”) you get an alphabetical listing of businesses from that location, but when you go to the second page of results everything goes sort of random. But if you search by one of their pre-defined regions, you get “no results” no matter which category you choose.
The other thing worth mentioning is that the businesses that are still open and delivering should really update their pages to reflect their current status. Some of them have a big COVID-19 thing on the landing page, and that’s great, whereas others just show you all the regular pretty pictures and hoo-haa, and that inspires less confidence that they’re retooling for the new reality. (E.g., a statement about their sanitary practices, delivery rules, etc. and priority on the ordering page right up front is what we want.)
Also interesting that Brulerie Faro (based in Sherbrooke but with a Montreal outlet on Ste-Catherine West at MacKay — where I work) is featured in the images on the landing page. I buy all my coffee for home from there, and when I got home from work on March 13th (last day before isolation) and realized I hadn’t stocked up I went online and ordered three pounds of coffee beans to be delivered. When it arrived a few days later I was like wow, what am I going to do with all this coffee? (it usually takes at least 10 days to go through a 500g bag). Now I’m like OMG please stay open because I’ll be ordering more soon!
denpanosekai 09:30 on 2020-04-07 Permalink
Search for Verdun and you get a poissonnerie from Gaspé
Kate 12:04 on 2020-04-07 Permalink
I’d rather eat fish caught in the Gaspé, than caught off Verdun…
Mark Côté 15:43 on 2020-04-07 Permalink
A number of these sites are springing up, including Ma Zone Québec and Solution Locale.