You Dig? is a subscription service that works with local bakeries and pastry shops buying bread at discounted rates (when it becomes discounted), and freezes it, and then resells it by subscription to subscribers based on a vote up / vote down system. Subscribers or members sign up for a weekly / bi-weekly / monthly delivery of bread options as they become available in one weeks time.
Example, a You Dig? subscriber has signed up for 1 bag of regular bagels at a set subscribers “market” price for the service (product purchase price at sale + 20% + storage cost /day + delivery) to be delivered every other week (if the product is in stock and available for the subscription threshold price*).
If a price permanently changes (sale price goes up), the subscriber is notified and the account is suspended until an action. Or as the product becomes available at or below that price, You Dig? buys up the stock at bakeries and freezes it and services each order based on its stock. Low inventories are sent by notification to the subscriber ahead of time (based on current stock and orders by end of day).
For more information about Micro-Company Concepts see the initial post.