Storefronts with QR codes on Google Maps?

Imagine if every storefront had a QR code that you could scan and see the google page for that business. *Their map location, reviews, website, and more all in one easily accessible place.*<br><br><br>Edit: Some additional ideas to get this idea off the ground.<br><br> **Logistics:** <br><br>1. You could likely get the same success by 1st launching it in *one area* of the world and try to get as many businesses as possible to participate in this area. From here you can show that the business’s can **benefit from this** by using their storefront to advertise their google page, and showing what success they have had in this 1 area. From here you can use that success as evidence for other businesses to use this in their area or city and start to expand to the whole country and world. <br>2. Some comments suggested that you could use people who work at businesses to be the ones to scan and upload the pictures of the storefronts. <br><br> **Money:**<br><br>1. You could *charge for different scan amounts.* The more scans the more money you need to pay. Maybe charge *a base amount for a certain amount of scans (1,000),* and *charge for each scan after this amount (maybe $0.01 per scan after 1,000).*<br>2. You could *charge for how close the QR code is to the storefront.* This could also possibly be done by *number of scans at that location.* For example, you could *charge very little for a scan 5 miles away from the business (even if it is 1,000 scans for example) at a rate of $0.01 per scan.* And *charge a much larger amount for a scan directly outside the storefront (even if only 100 scans) at a rate of $0.1 per scan.*<br>3. You could *charge for the business’s google page to be at the top of the suggested places to go on the QR code page.* This could be *percentage based* (the more you pay, the higher up on the list you would be), *scan based* (the more scans you pay for, the higher up on the list you would be), or just *ranked by which businesses google thinks you would be most interested in.*<br><br>Edit 2: I want to give a huge thanks for the amount of feedback this has had. I have taken a lot of the ideas you’ve all posted in the comments and updated this post to incorporate them. I think this idea has a lot of potential to be used in the real world. If you have any more ideas, please don’t hesitate to comment!<br><br>**Final Edit:** This idea has had a lot of great feedback! One of the major comments has been about how the people who do this work will be paid. I think the best way to pay these workers would be to *pay them a base hourly rate, and then a small rate per storefront they upload a picture of. The rate should vary depending on how many scans the storefront gets* because this is a more accurate measure of *how valuable this storefront is to a business.* Maybe you could pay workers a base rate of $15 hourly, and an extra $0.5 per storefront they scan that gets up to 300 scans in the year, $1 extra for storefronts that get up to 600 scans in the year, and $2 extra for storefronts that get over 600 scans in the year. From here, you could also have *bonuses for a certain number of storefronts scanned* such as a $10 bonus for *50 storefronts in 1 day, $20 bonus for 100 storefronts in 1 day, $30 bonus for 150 storefronts in *1 day, etc.*<br><br><br><br>This idea would rely on workers going around to storefronts and 1st taking *pictures of the storefront so that AI could identify it and determine the QR code is for this storefront.* From here, a *QR code can be printed and placed on the storefront* for people to scan. From here, the QR code can direct people to the storefronts google page and show them the *map location, website, reviews, and more.* This page could also show a list of *suggested places to go* that could possibly be ranked by how many scans are at the storefront, so that people can see how popular and well liked a storefront is. This page could also possibly have an area to list out the storefronts *hours of operation. I personally use this a lot on google pages to see when a business will be open.* <br><br>I think this could be a good idea because I don’t carry cash on me very much and sometimes find myself at businesses where I can only pay cash, but I don’t have any. This would be a problem solved by having the website of the business on the google page that you can use to pay digitally. Another issue I have is not knowing when businesses are open and deciding to go to a business only to find out they are closed. This would be a problem solved by having the hours of operation on the google page. A final issue I have is that I travel a lot and am in new areas, and try to support local businesses but don’t know where to go. I think you could use the suggested places to go section to solve this problem. <br><br>An issue with this idea is the fact that you would have to hire workers to go around and take pictures of storefronts. This could be a large upfront cost and would likely take a lot of people and time to get this up and running. But in the long run I think *businesses would pay for these QR codes because you could charge per scan on the QR code.* You could also *charge for businesses to be at the top of the suggested places to go page.* A final thing you could do is *charge for the most popular storefronts to have their QR code closer to the actual storefront.*