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Will Little Flying Planes(drone) Make It To The Nigerian Ecommerce Market? by Roland333: 2:36pm On Apr 13, 2016
Delivery by drone is still relatively new in Nigeria and I think we still have a long way to go before we can fully implement it. Yudala is the first to actually carry out a successful delivery to a customer by drone. Other ecommerce platforms such as [url]Cubemaw.com[/url] and Konga are trying to implement it.
Now I believe that the whole point of delivering anything by drone is to save time and also save cost of paying couriers. So I really do not understand why after using a drone a staff will also go the customer and process the invoice. Then the staff should have just gone to deliver the product in the first place.
Also how far can these drones actually go? They run on battery and also they need wireless connection to be able to keep track of them. Assuming these drones are delivering an item to somewhere like Lekki from Yaba, that connection would have broken, so how do the merchants keep track of the items.
Also assuming the customer lives in a block of flats whereby there are lots of other flatmates and the drone gets to the apartment and somebody else disguises as the customer and retrieves the package, is there a way to avoid all these kind of issues and mix ups.
Knowing the kind of country we live in, we should be ready to face issues like this.
There is still a lot of work to be done concerning drones and their implementations in Nigeria mostly on Security.

Re: Will Little Flying Planes(drone) Make It To The Nigerian Ecommerce Market? by Nobody: 3:06pm On Apr 13, 2016
it will be very bad to implement it here in Africa , I know people won't really be after the product the drone want to deliver but the drone itself ... am sure it won't make it back grin
Re: Will Little Flying Planes(drone) Make It To The Nigerian Ecommerce Market? by Chazzyboy: 3:22pm On Apr 13, 2016
It will be a major breakthrough here but is gonna cost
Re: Will Little Flying Planes(drone) Make It To The Nigerian Ecommerce Market? by pacino26(m): 4:52am On Apr 14, 2016
People will love it, yes! Kids will love it the more cuz the drones will be making a one way trip each time. The company will have to repurchase a new one after each delivery. grin

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