{"id":251,"date":"2015-05-05T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2015-05-05T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:28:10","slug":"support-local-businesses-and-then-get-same-day-delivery-by-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Support Local Businesses\u2014And Then Get Same-Day Delivery By Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you buy toilet paper online\u2014or shoes or shampoo or groceries\u2014it&#8217;s probably partly because of lack of time to shop in person. That convenience comes with a few obvious challenges, like undercutting local businesses and adding to the massive carbon footprint of delivery. So a German startup is testing a new model: An online shop that only features local stores, and offers same-day delivery by cargo bike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus.jpg\" alt=\"kizekaufhaus\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus.jpg 750w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kizekaufhaus-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all started a year ago, when we saw the piles of packages that employees had ordered online and that they had delivered to the agency,&#8221; says <a class=\"profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/nanna-beyer\">Nanna Beyer<\/a>, who led the project for the local design firm Scholz &amp; Volkmer. &#8220;It&#8217;s all very convenient. But if you look behind that there are some things going wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3045525\/who-needs-amazon-support-local-businesses-and-then-get-same-day-delivery-by-bike\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you buy toilet paper online\u2014or shoes or shampoo or groceries\u2014it&#8217;s probably partly because of lack of time to shop in person. That convenience comes with a few obvious challenges, like undercutting local businesses and adding to the massive carbon &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=251\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Support Local Businesses\u2014And Then Get Same-Day Delivery By Bike<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,7,6],"tags":[25,42,48],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-goodnews","category-spcnews","tag-eco-entrepreneur","tag-europe","tag-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}