Happy Dude

This little clip made me smile looks like some US shopping channel maybe set in the south?

Not quite Benny Hill but Ernie The Fastest Organic Milkman In The West makes a return  as all that’s old seems to be the new-new!

Delivering organic milk to customers’ doors in glass milk bottles, is coming back as the Manhattan Milk Company is reviving old-fashioned dairy delivery.

For a $5 delivery charge, Manhattanites can get a weekly delivery of fresh milk. The company’s driver loads up his truck on Wednesdays at 4 am and delivers to all of Manhattan, picking up empty bottles when he drops off the full ones. The milk is sourced from 51 Amish farms in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, about 160 miles southwest of New York City.

Maybe we will see this regeneration grow combining dairy delivery with locally supported agriculture ventures that deliver organic fruit and veg from farms to households across the world – with eco delivery systems?

Think about it convenience, charm, organic and local all combined with green credentials!!

Everything Locally2u!!

UK high street and shopping mall retailer Argos are launching a range of self-assembly log cabins with price points from as low as £11,000.

The Finnlife Helsinki flatpack option at £13,000 comeswith five rooms, underfloor heating and laminate flooring and, according to the retailer, it can be built by two people in one to two days.

The home also boasts a “handy loft area for storage” and a decked terrace where the owners can sit and soak up the sun.

The 32ft by 16ft 10in Helsinki, made of Scandinavian whitewood, has double-glazed French doors, windows and a felt shingle roof.

Argos said the home is “supplied in kit form containing all the components and instructions required for self assembly”.

According to research by marketing inteligence company Key Note eCommerce will be the key factor driving the growth of the home shopping market, which will account for around one third of all retail sales in the UK by 2012.
It claims that home shopping market will expand at a rapid, albeit decelerating pace over the next five years. The research also predicts that the general mail-order sector will completely converge with internet sales by 2012, while direct sales are likely to begin to decline.

The total market for UK home shopping was valued at an estimated £58bn in 2006, more than double the £28bn spent in 2003. Figures reveal that while the e-commerce sector has exploded, the general mail-order sector has experienced a sharp decline.

Key Note claims that rising broadband penetration in the UK will only drive market growth further, and that the need to invest heavily in e-commerce means that the largest retailers will come to dominate the e-commerce sector.

Key Note finds that the general mail-order sector is increasingly overlapping with the e-commerce sector, while direct selling and direct marketing are also coming under competitive pressure from the growth of internet sales.

[Via BrandRepublic]