Choose
You browse the catalog, read the product pages, find out which Tuscan business each one comes from. You add what interests you to the cart.
Prices already include VAT — no surprises at checkout.
How it works
Buy online, collect at the market
A marketplace where the person who hands you your order has a name, a stall and a day.
Tuscany Market Hub is a different kind of marketplace. You buy Tuscan craft, food and wine online, but you don't get them from a courier: you collect them at the market, from someone who knows the area and works the stall near you.
It is built for people who want to buy well, to know who hands them their order, to live the market as a real exchange. It isn't the only way: anyone who prefers delivery at home chooses it in the cart, and the parcel comes by courier.
But the heart of the project is collection at the market — because the market is where a place comes together.
From order to stall
The three steps to buying on TMH
Choose where to collect
In the cart, below the total, you choose how you want to receive your order. If you choose collection at the market you need the stall's code: if you don't have it, the «Where to collect» button opens a five-step form — region, province, town, market, stall — and at the end it gives you the code to paste into the cart.
Every stall has its own page: the days, the squares, the pitch, what is on it. Otherwise you choose home delivery. The parcel leaves the producer either way, so there is a shipping cost in both cases: you see how much before you pay.
Collect at the market
You agree the day and the exact market directly with the market trader after the order. That day you stop by the stall, show your order confirmation and take the parcel.
One person, one place, one agreed moment. The parcel isn't waiting for you at home: you collect it somewhere you know, at an hour you know, from the hands of the person at the stall.
The reasons
Why we built a marketplace this way
You know who hands it over
The person, not the algorithm
In the standard e-commerce model, whoever delivers to you is a stranger who turns up once, doesn't speak, and disappears. In the TMH model, whoever hands you your order is a trader who lives in your area, knows the products they're giving you, and you will probably see again.
The parcel isn't an isolated event: it's an appointment.
The market as a social occasion
The place, not just the address
The market isn't just somewhere to buy things. It's the weekly moment when a neighborhood meets, when people talk, when the sellers get to know one another.
When you stop by to collect a TMH order, you do all of that. You aren't replacing a trip to the market with an online purchase: you're creating one more.
The margin stays local
The supply chain, not the middleman
Buying through TMH, you buy from the producer: they are the seller, they are the one who invoices you. In between there is no big generalist marketplace's margin, and none of the chain of hand-offs that puts distance between whoever buys and whoever makes.
The value stays where it was created. And you collect the parcel somewhere that is already there on the ground — the market stall — instead of from one more link.