Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Deliveries At All Hours!

A newspaper clipping from the Arcade Herald in 1952 was musing about the "good old days" of 1902: "Telephones were few, and far between," referring to Main Street businesses. "Stores were shy on putting in phones, claiming it would result in forcing them to make deliveries at all hours." When you compare that with Amazon developing drones to make deliveries directly to your front door, 24 / 7, those business owners of 1902 would faint in horror!