10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years
According to Entrepreneur.com (from September 2007):
- Record stores
- Camera film manufacturing
- Crop dusters
- Gay bars
- Newspapers
- Pay phones
- Used bookstores
- Piggy banks
- Telemarketing
- Coin-operated arcades
(HT: Ben Cunningham)
5 Comments:
From 2007? You sure the date is correct? I only ask because last year I could have predicted 8 out of 10.
Hmmm, crop dusting, eh?
Personally I think in ten years radio controlled crop dusting vehicles might be quite common...
But commercial airlines are increasingly taking business away from the small, independent crop dusters.
What a nonsensical statement. Since when are airlines spraying crops?
Used bookstores? That's kind of sad. They always seem to have incredibly low overhead so I'm not sure I believe this one.
juandos - unmanned aircraft have a long way to go before they're allowed in the air by the FAA in anything like the numbers necessary to replace crop dusting.
Amazon is 10x better for used books then any used bookstore anyways. They don't have snooty staff either. I grew up in Santa Cruz king of indi-everything along with Berkeley. Coin-op arcades definitely on the way out: except for cyber cafes in foreign cities where spammers, gamers, and hackers congregate. Used a pay-phone lately? Talk about embarrassing...and that's if you can even find one!
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