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@thomas453 Chewy.com isn't present in India.

@613jono My move would be copy chewy's model. Give a personalized customer support.

@613jono In India is it?

@tolkien Yes Amazon could easily crush this model. But I wouldn't know without trying. This is a classic case of Amazon vs. Diapers.com. Yes Amazon won in the end, but Marc Lore (the founder of Diapers) made a ton of money in the end as well.

@thomas453 Indian markets are tough to crack, not as tough as china tough. I'd get a first movers advantage even if they decide to get in.

@helpforacause I am from India. We only got Amazon to beat.

@613jono Hello, thank you for taking time to provide your feedback. My comments: Yes, I am only targeting 10% market of my city, that would be 40k households. The numbers in my post were posted only because someone in the comments said that they won't ever add up. This is why I tried to...

@reluctantasr chewy is not present in India and I do not know if they'd be looking to enter. I am interested in basing my model on my city first and then scale. I do not know if a player would want to buy a one city business. I am keen on bootstrapping it.

@613jono A lot of my friends and family feed the dog/cat with pet food. Well bred dogs costs from INR 5K to 25k. People tend to care for their grooming and diet very much. I agree a lot of the people feed their cat with human food.

@613jono A lot of my friends and family feed the dog/cat with pet food. Well bred dogs costs from INR 5K to 25k. People tend to care for their grooming and diet very much. I agree a lot of the people feed their cat with human food.

@goldhorde Thanks for the quality feedback. I have questions for you: How do prices differ between chewy and Amazon? Do you think the model in post is viable?

@markgraybill Well, you are out my target audience I guess. I'd still want to test this out with atleast one delivery boy for a period of 3 months and see how it goes.

@markgraybill The stores in my city don't do delivery. Atleast most of them don't. I live in Pune. I intend to apply this model to my city first. If I am able to get even 10% of the households use my service, I'd be able to breakeven. Think of it as Diapers.com for pet food. Unless there's a...

@sarahannxo No Lean Startup in this list?😐

@davemalyon I wouldn't store these myself. Just buy it right up and deliver when an order comes. This way I'd save the warehouse and supply chain costs. Pet grooming and dog walking isn't really big in India. It could become one day, and I could roll it out with in my website.

@babszie I'd give a look to Pets.com. The delivery thing from restaurants is already being done on a large scale. There's Rocket Internet's Food Panda, Uber Eats, and Swiggy which recently received a $1 Billion in funding.

@docwhyte The margin shouldn't work to support my bills. This would really be a MVP to see if could scale with such thin margins. If yes, then a larger margin would make sense by applying for a distributors license. Also, I am from India where the delivery boy's salary would be $120-150 per...

@aminganancy Not in India. We only have Amazon.

@hlcorn3 Applying for a distributors license would be the next thing if I get validation that the model is working. This would get me margins to the tune of 25%. Dog walking isn't yet a thing in India yet.

@alicehaynes Yes. I updated the post. Thanks.