DoorDash for clothes shopping?

A frequent complaint I see on Twitter about shopping online is people hate to wait for their products to arrive.

What if there was a DoorDash service for clothes shopping? If you aren’t familiar with DoorDash — they will pick up and deliver food for you from your favorite restaurants. You’re no longer limited to the pizza delivery guy. It’d be cool to have a similar set up for clothes shopping. Google Express seems to have gotten a handle on the groceries market and they do have some options for clothing but you’re limited to what they list on their site. Amazon has some products that are same day delivery, but again you’re limited to their inventory. See your favorite skirt on sale at Gap? You won’t find it on Google Express or Amazon. At least not yet. And if you want to return anything? Huge pain. You’ve actually got to get off the couch, drive to the post office and mail it off. Where’s the convenience in that? The only convenient part about shopping online is the purchasing part. Everything else is really inconvenient.

I see this DoorDash (ClothingDash?) model working something like this:

1. You pick out and purchase some clothing you like from your favorite store, let’s say it’s a skirt from Gap.
2. Your ClothingDash delivery guy/gal drops the skirt off at your doorstep (the same day you ordered it of course!).
3. You’ve got 24 hours to decide if you like the skirt or not. If you don’t, schedule a time for the delivery guy/gal to pick it up for you. You get charged a fee for the delivery guy/gal to pick it up for you. If you don’t want to pay the fee, well, get off your lazy butt and go return it at the store yourself!

Potential drawbacks to this model:

1. A lot of stores have some inventory available only online. So if your favorite skirt isn’t available at a brick and mortar store, you’d still have to order online.
2. Related to #1, if the product isn’t available in a nearby store, you’ll still have to order it online (or perhaps incur an additional fee if it’s not within a 25 mile radius?)
3. If you want to return something yourself (instead of the delivery guy/gal doing it for you) and you aren’t the person that originally purchased the product I don’t know if you’d be able to get cash back — you might only be able to get store credit. The purchasing/charging the customer situation would require some more thought.

Until some company follows through with this brilliant plan, you can use Shopsifter to find your favorite products from your favorite stores. (You didn’t think I was going to let a blog post go by without promoting my app, did you?)

Happy Sifting!