A system for facilitating interaction between businesses, independent
delivery agents, and customers. The system includes a customer product
order interface that receives customer product orders as input and
provides a first signal in response thereto. The customer product orders
are associated with a predetermined business. A look-up system for selects
an independent delivery agent to deliver a product to the customer in
response to the first signal and with reference to a distance between said
delivery agent, the customer, and the business, and provides a second
signal in response thereto. A delivery agent order delivery system for
provides the selected delivery agent with a delivery order based on the
customer product order in response to the second signal.