You’ve heard of the food delivery services by this point; Skip the Dishes, Door Dash, Uber Eats.
The brainiacs who got off the couch long enough to start these companies tapped into a very human condition; laziness (or, desire to wear pajamas outside of bedtime).
The convenience of a person bringing goods to your home is not new, though the ability of ordering delivery from normal sit-down restaurants is.
(Doesn’t eating butternut squash ravioli while binge-watching reruns of Friends take away the novelty of going out to eat? That’s a whole different discussion.)
Since we don’t use coal to warm our homes anymore, the coal deliveryman doesn’t knock anymore (and leave sooty hand prints on the railing!)
We can get our news delivered via notification alerts, so newspaper delivery kids are mostly playing on the devices that crushed readership in the first place.
But, we still drink milk. Regularly.
The milk industry hasn’t disappeared. There are more milk options today than there were when Sam last placed a carton of 2% between your screen door and front door back in 1983.
Almond, Soy, Rice, Goat, Coconut and Flax are a few of the new options you could have waiting for you when you wake up, along with old fashioned Cow, or, Milk Classic.
Therefore, I predict we should see a renaissance of milk-toting delivery agents zipping around our neighbourhoods in the near future.
Seeing those retro uniforms will be reason enough to get many people on board. Everything old is new again in the 21st century!
