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For example, home deliveries of milk or bread, mail collection from homes for posting,

Any other suggestions are welcome.

Well, at least for one service, yes. For example grocery delivery. Many families are just too busy to grocery shop. Also they are health conscious and would rather avoid impulse buys. Say if you had a business delivering the groceries by bicycle - you could tout yourself as a local, environmentally friendly business, and have low overhead. You’d deliver on a certain date and time. Once you got enough customers, you could buy directly from wholesalers - so it could be economical, as you would need a minimum of storage space.

Ideal for this would be locally produced meat/produce - stuff you can’t always get at chain stores.

You could do it yourself or hire college kids. Maybe even sell advertising space on the carts you use for delivery.

Also you could have customers in seniors or disabled who can’t leave their homes. If you could get a number of homes in an area it could work. I know of one company that’s done it successfully.

A LOT depends on your ability to successfully market the service.

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Will new employment opportunities be created by going back to the old ways of doing things?

Koala Joe | 24.07.2010 at 2:16 pm

Except in upscale areas where enough people are willing to pay for this level of service, it is uneconomic to provide it, so the answer is, unfortunately, no.
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pinkangelswatch | 24.07.2010 at 3:06 pm

Yes, that would be the answer. Now that machines do things humans used to do it has shrunk the job market. I must say things are usually made better quality by humans. We have thought ourselves right out of jobs. Hand made items are coming back in so we have hope!
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ausblue | 24.07.2010 at 3:30 pm

yes all that helps..all the new inventions does man out of work

take the farmers for instance..cane cutting is all done by machine today
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Jen | 24.07.2010 at 4:18 pm

Well, at least for one service, yes. For example grocery delivery. Many families are just too busy to grocery shop. Also they are health conscious and would rather avoid impulse buys. Say if you had a business delivering the groceries by bicycle - you could tout yourself as a local, environmentally friendly business, and have low overhead. You’d deliver on a certain date and time. Once you got enough customers, you could buy directly from wholesalers - so it could be economical, as you would need a minimum of storage space.

Ideal for this would be locally produced meat/produce - stuff you can’t always get at chain stores.

You could do it yourself or hire college kids. Maybe even sell advertising space on the carts you use for delivery.

Also you could have customers in seniors or disabled who can’t leave their homes. If you could get a number of homes in an area it could work. I know of one company that’s done it successfully.

A LOT depends on your ability to successfully market the service.
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