i'd love for us to make some kind of decentralized delivery market place -- can you imagine if we had a nation wide, country wide service of electric vans that could deliver physical services between steemians. that would be bad ass. i've added this to 'hello human' -- out shortly.
as for local, local died because of greedy landlords and portfolio watching of their income. amazon has all that stuff on lock. so they don't just spend without though of how much it costs to actually function as a business -- they replaced sentimentally of the 'high street' with 'i want this shit now/tomorrow'
good or bad, it works freaking well.