Online Grocery in Phnom Penh Cambodia

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Re: Online Grocery in Phnom Penh Cambodia

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eriksank wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2017 4:24 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2017 3:18 pmhow many people likely to use the online supermarket are likely going to have bitcoins to pay?
That is a chicken-and-egg problem. If you can pay with bitcoin at an online marketplace in Cambodia, it would beef up demand for bitcoin in the btc-for-cash local market. More traders would be offering them. And then more people would have them too. Wing express would also be a workable local payment option. Wing express does not force anybody to open an account, provide endless amounts of paperwork, such as copies of passports, visas, rental contracts, or to generally enter a master-slave relationship with a bank.
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2017 3:18 pmwhy would you get an online supermarket to deliver goods from phnom penh to sihanoukville when there is already a well established online supermarket already here?
cmbmart.com has a poor assortment. I can't find Dutch gouda cheese or French camembert there. Single-vendor online shops will always have a limited assortment. Someone needs to set up a fully-fledged online multi-vendor marketplace like alibaba or amazon. You can pretty much find anything you could ever want in multivendor marketplaces like amazon.
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2017 3:18 pm ... plus why wait for you grocerys when you could just pop to the local supermarket, sihanoukville is small and not plagued with traffic it takes me 2 minutes to get to the supermarket if i need something ...
It would allow me to get some kind of monthly (or even three-monthly) shopping list delivered to the house. If I happen to run out of supplies during the month, I would just pick it up at a local supermarket. You see, local supermarkets barely cater to foreign tastes. For example, I like to eat things like this:

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cmbmart.com obviously doesn't carry it. The superette on Victory Hill carries it, though. There are so many products that one, single vendor will never have.

But then again, the general lack of reading/writing skills in Cambodia will continue to depress supply and demand for online services. The customers won't be able to use it anyway. There won't be enough vendors, who will not be able to find staff with basic literacy anyway.
Pardon my ignorance, but is it in vogue for Muslims to eat Pork products now?
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Raybull wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 2:06 amPardon my ignorance, but is it in vogue for Muslims to eat Pork products now?
Well, if Google translate can resolve the issue in a matter of a few clicks, by translating "canard" from French into English, it may indeed be a new form of ignorance:

https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/canard

But then again, even if it is not pork, the source of meat may indeed not have been slaughtered in a halal way. I still need to introduce that additional requirement on food. For the time being, I don't particularly check the slaughter method, but I feel like doing that someday. I guess that with age I will naturally become more pedantic concerning these things.

At the moment, Islam is certainly a useful political tool: There is only one legitimate law maker -- who may not even exist -- "but it is certainly not you". Putting a stop to the invention of additional man-made law, is something I absolutely endorse. It would be a bit hard to adopt that position all alone. It becomes much easier to do that, while backed by a demographic of 1.6 billion people, of whom a very small but spectacular sub-fraction will enforce it, if need be, by scaring the hell out of any opponents.

In that sense, I am just utilizing what is useful to me. So, yes, I did notice the conflict. Just like everybody else, I have seen the severed arms and legs flying around on the television screen, and then I jumped on the opportunity to re-purpose the whole situation to my own advantage. Of course, I have noticed -- just like with bitcoin -- that lots of people do not really "geddit", but that is nothing new, obviously. So, yes, God is great, and he really does instill fear into the idiots. He even terrorizes them! ;-)
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eriksank wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 2:54 am
Raybull wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 2:06 amPardon my ignorance, but is it in vogue for Muslims to eat Pork products now?
Well, if Google translate can resolve the issue in a matter of a few clicks, by translating "canard" from French into English, it may indeed be a new form of ignorance:

https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/canard
Greater ignorance can be achieved by assuming that the descriptor 'canard' suggests the entire content of the consumable, whereas one should read the remainder of the label:
Haricots lingots 200g net (35% à la mise en œuvre) - Sauce cuisinée : eau, concentré de tomate, sel, graisse de canard, ail, poivre - Charcuterie et viande 90g net (32% à la mise en œuvre) : viande de canard origine France (20% à la mise en oeuvre du poids net total) ; saucisse de Toulouse grillée (viande et gras de porc origine UE, eau, boyau naturel de porc, sel, poivre).
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Raybull wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 2:06 amPardon my ignorance, but is it in vogue for Muslims to eat Pork products now? .... saucisse de Toulouse grillée (viande et gras de porc origine UE, eau, boyau naturel de porc, sel, poivre).
Well, in that case, don't eat the sausage, and you should be ok. Even though the general idea is not to eat food en provenance from the unbelievers -- yuk -- we are clearly surrounded and outnumbered by them. That gives us all the excuses in the world! ;-)
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