XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/20/2014 10:17 AM, Doc O'Leary wrote:   
   > 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.  :-)   
   >   
   Until they do the math and realize that they're paying $10K per year for   
   mass transit instead of $30K every ten years for a car.   
      
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