Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platform for facilitating online and in-store ordering; providing online non-downloadable software that allows users to search, browse, and purchase a wide variety of consumer goods of others; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for browsing, comparing, and purchasing a wide variety of consumer goods of others; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for ordering delivery services; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for engaging and coordinating personal shopper and delivery services; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for providing information on available same-day transportation and delivery services; providing online non-downloadable software that allows users to search, access, create, publish and browse information in the field of food, cooking, wine, beverages, recipes, general merchandise, consumer goods, pharmacy goods, home goods, pet supplies, electronics, clothing, beauty products, media, and office supplies; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for shopping in the field of consumer goods, grocery, food, pharmacy, home goods, pet supply, electronics, clothing, beauty, media, office supply, and general merchandise; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for delivery in the field of consumer goods, grocery, food, pharmacy, home goods, pet supply, electronics, clothing, beauty, media, office supply, and general merchandise; providing online non-downloadable software that allows users to search, access, create, publish and browse information in the field of food, cooking, wine, beverages, recipes, general merchandise, consumer goods, pharmacy goods, home goods, pet supplies, electronics, clothing, beauty products, media, and office supplies; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for searching for and accessing, creating, publishing and browsing information in the field of general merchandise, consumer goods, groceries and food, pharmacy goods, home goods, pet supplies, electronics, clothing, beauty products, media, office supplies; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for payment processing, usage data reporting, controlling user access, and reservation of charging times; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for use in database management, sales, customer tracking and management, and inventory management for the e-commerce, wholesale and retail industries; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for data management for the food service field; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software programs for data management for the food service field; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software designed to estimate costs for food-related products and services; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software designed to estimate resource requirements for food-related products and services; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for data management for the food service field; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for accounting systems; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for analyzing address files; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for business purposes in the field of accounting and data management for the food service industry; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for communicating purposes between microcomputers; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for communication between computer processes; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software for processing address files; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software packages for data management for the food service field; providing temporary use of non- downloadable web-based software products, namely, non-downloadable software for data management for the food service field; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based software programs for database management; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based industrial software programs for food production; providing temporary use of non-downloadable web-based interactive software for data management for the food service field; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer e-commerce software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via global computer network; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for use in processing credit and debit card payments; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software development kits (SDKs) consisting of non-downloadable computer software development tools to allow third parties to integrate retailer applications, e-commerce sites and retail fulfillment backend systems to cloud-based consumer marketplace or a locally deployed server; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for image recognition and matching images so analyzed with other image data; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer image processing software for use in extracting visual attributes from images that may be downloaded from a global computer network; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for use in acquiring shopping information and price comparisons that may be downloaded from a global computer network; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software that provides weight, dimension, shape, and location data for digitally scanned products; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software that allows users to identify and locate online stores where goods that have been digitally photographed and interpreted by image recognition software can be purchased; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software that tracks a shopper's location inside a store and displays it to users via a screen interface while shopping; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for use in inventory tracking and data analytics in the field of retail stores; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for analyzing retail store customer data; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for analyzing consumer behavioral data; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software to collect and aggregate consumer behavior data within a retail store; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software to provide dynamic pricing of items throughout the store; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software that provides recommendation of items for purchase based on shopper preferences; providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for use in advertising products and brands via electronic displays throughout retail stores.;