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That doesn’t get it to you any faster or much cheaper than just individuals just paying a foreign company to ship it to them direct. You’re adding another middleman importer that needs to make a profit while developing and paying people to apply the labels and deal with customs, shipping, warehousing, etc. They might be able to do it faster than the normal way, but it definitely would add significant cost. And if you’re trying to get people to buy a new product, it’s not good to start with a noncompetitive price. It makes people see it as unaffordable even after the price eventually stabilizes. First impressions are a big deal in product marketing.

Most companies are doing it right now. They don’t want to pay for developers as professionals. They want them to be low wage slaves like all of their other employees and have been working towards that for years. The fake promises of “AI” is giving them an excuse to lay off all of the experienced developers and hire entry level people pretending that “AI” will do the actual work. In reality the few remaining real developers are having to pick up all of the slack combined with products getting more and more buggy and useless. Eventually things will crash, but they’ll be able to rehire at much lower wages because consolidation has lead to very few small businesses in the market anymore and very few large businesses that all just laid off a ton who haven’t been able to find work.

Most products are specifically packaged for a given market. Especially with more regulated products, it’s may be legal to import the product itself, but not in the packaging that is legal in other places. Plus there are language barriers, supply network differences, differences in store shelf standard sizes so bottles fit on shelves, etc. It likely will take time to design and produce the packaging, push the product to each stage of intermediate warehouses, and finally get it to stores.

That said and individual could import their own, but you’ll have to pay for the shipping yourself and deal with any market differences in pricing and costs of currency conversion if your credit card doesn’t do it for free.

Yeah, that’s not how it works in reality though. The new multifamily homes that have gone up in the last few years replacing old unkempt houses in my neighborhood with an exemption to parking have made it impossible to park even with our neighborhood being a “restricted parking zone” that requires an annual pass to park. My lot is too small for a parking spot and I have one car, not out of choice, but necessity since even in a very progressive city, the transit is crap (partly due to the federal government killing the money we were planning on using to enhance it in retaliation for not checking immigration status on people arrested but released for not having actually committed any serious crime). So even though I pay $60/year to street park, I often still have to park several blocks from my home. And single family homes with off street parking are still by far more common. Unless the pubic transportation is funded enough to eliminate the absolute impossibility of living without a car, it does no good to just force said cars onto the street. “The market” you speak of is developers, not homeowners. New development will just not plan any homes with parking, because the few sales they may lose to no parking is far outweighed by doubling or more the number of hones they can build. People who buy the new homes and don’t live in the neighborhood won’t know how impossible it is to street park until after the homes are all built which could be a year or several after signing a contract.