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walrus01yesterday at 8:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Sure, I mean from the day to day operations of selling a product to the customer, maybe it does fine? People in the article say it's friendly and cooperative (perhaps a bit too much). I was thinking more in terms of building a consistent plan for retail product lines to sell over a multi month period. The selection of "stuff" in the store right now looks like you put an etsy search into a blender.

It is also probably too high of a goal to expect an LLM to come up with money-earning products that people want to buy that will pay for San Francisco level retail storefront rent, electricity, insurance, internet other basic overhead costs, plus the fully loaded salary cost of at least one employee. If the storefront was free of rent, maybe? Or if it was operating selling some kind of highly in demand product line where there would be economy of scale.


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Joel_Mckayyesterday at 8:28 PM

Physical Brick and Mortar locations no longer make sense for many retail businesses, as Walmart/Amazon have same day delivery.

If folks have ever been financially bent-over for a retail business shop location they understand why margins matter. One has to move a lot of inventory just to reach a profit mode.

Gimmicks only work for awhile, as consumers have full market awareness on their smartphone. =3

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