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Community Market

A neighborhood store, right where people live.

450 sqft

Footprint

~500 SKUs

Assortment

30-day pad

Deploy

A larger outdoor-format store for master-planned and garden-style communities, single-family HOAs, and campus courtyards. The full essentials run, close to home.

Deployment

Deploys on a site-built pad in 30 days.

Best for

  • Garden-style multifamily
  • Single-family HOAs
  • Master-planned communities
  • Campus courtyards

450 sqft

Footprint

~500 SKUs

Assortment

30-day pad

Deploy

A moment in the neighborhood

What a household runs to the pod for.

A fuller-assortment store steps from the front door quietly erases the small, urgent errands that used to mean loading the kids back into the car.

7:05 AM

The out-of-milk morning

Nina realizes at breakfast that she is out of milk and her daughter's lunchbox is empty. She walks to the courtyard pod in her slippers and is back before the bus with milk, bread, bananas, and a box of juice pouches.

Milk and lunch before the bus

3:30 PM

After the bus stop

School lets out and Jordan's kids want a snack now, not after a fifteen-minute drive. On the walk home from the bus stop he grabs yogurt tubes, apples, string cheese, and a fresh gallon of milk from the neighborhood pod.

Snacks without the after-school drive

6:20 PM

The dinner rescue

Dinner is half-made when Sofia discovers she is out of eggs and pasta sauce. Rather than reload two kids into the car, she runs to the pod for eggs, a jar of sauce, a head of garlic, and a bag of salad, and dinner is back on.

The missing ingredient, minutes away

9:15 PM

Long after the store closed

Well after the nearest supermarket has locked up, college sophomore Tyler needs laundry detergent and something to eat. The community pod is still lit and open, stocked with pasta, frozen meals, laundry pods, and paper towels for exactly this hour.

Open long after the store closed

Let's put a pod on your property.

Now installing Lobby Pod. Q4 2026 install window open. First pod live in 90 days from pilot signature.

Company

Surplus AI, Inc.

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