To eliminate the excessive fees of the corporate delivery apps in order to take less money from the customers and merchants, and put more in the driver’s pocket.
Welcome to StoreRun. My name is Richard Monahan, and this is the story of how StoreRun came to be, the intent of what I hope for everyone to get out of it, and what it means to me. The reason I started StoreRun is to make an app that will deliver anything, to any one, and to do so in a way that is beneficial to all.
I was driving for one of the major food delivery apps during a blizzard in January 2022. I was doing pretty good as far as compensation, but I realized that the corporation behind it was doing phenomenal. I truly enjoyed what I was doing, but I felt slighted by the corporation because it seemed like they were charging the customers a lot of money in fees, the vendor(merchant/restaurant) was getting hit for 30% of the sale, which I felt was excessive, and I was getting paid just enough to get me to do it, but not a penny more. I felt very strongly that I could do a better job of creating an app to accomplish the same thing, and I wanted to make it fair for all parties involved.
If it were up to me, this world would revolve around love, respect and fairness to all. I have been a web developer since the very beginning of the Internet; I feel like I am very good at what I do, but I do not have that killer instinct. I DO have passion, and my passion is to create an app that will get the goods delivered, and leave everyone feeling like it was a fair and square deal. My opinion is that the current options leave the customer feeling like they got what they wanted at a premium price, the vendors feel like they were forced to inflate their menu prices – but they ARE getting more business, and the drivers are getting pretty good money, but I do not believe anyone is walking away feeling great about the whole thing. And I suspect the faceless board members of the corporation are feeling like they deserve a larger bonus.
My vision for StoreRun: as a web developer who can build the 3 apps required – Customer app for shopping, Vendor app for receiving and packing the orders, and the Driver app for the last mile delivery of the goods; charge $1 per transaction. This eliminates the excessive fees to the customers, the vendors I have not worked out the pricing model but I certainly can do MUCH better than a 30% charge per order, which leaves more money to compensate the drivers who are the workhorses of this operation. At a dollar per transaction, the house will be just fine as well. As far as I can tell, in my model everybody wins(except for the corporate executives whom I suspect of being greedy; and I do not think they care about me, so I do not care about them).