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   In article <1lfs2bf.q8avak1tn3dhcN%news{@bestley.co.uk>,   
    news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) wrote:   
      
   > I suspect more likely that there was no competetion on price and so   
   > service mattered, or that was the way it was always done. Then   
   > sipermarkets came in and competed on price and with cars people could   
   > get their shopping easily. The old sytle shops lot out on price. No need   
   > to invoke shareholders etc.   
      
   And that's the reason cars became and remain so entrenched.  As a sunk   
   cost, people do a lot with it to justify such a major purchase.  Unless   
   you can eliminate the "need" for a car completely, it is too tempting to   
   see the non-car things as the extra expenses.   
      
   That's why I assert that a delivery (or transit) service is better   
   offered as consumer-directed rather than business-directed.  Convince   
   people they don't have to spend $20K+ on a vehicle, and you'll find they   
   have a lot more spare cash to give you.  :-)   
      
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