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I'm no expert in the brothel business but I do have to wonder. Today it was reported in the papers that Leederville's Sweetlips Fish and Chips was closing down. We've seen it in the papers about a whole bunch of other restaurants are closing. A friend of mine was thinking of opening a fish and chips shop opposite the pub but decided not to go ahead when he looked at how Uber Eats was killing everything.
So why would it affect the brothel part of the sex business? I only say this because Mount Lawley, until recently, had a 24 hour Chemist (the legal kind). Now it opens from 7a.m. to 2a.m. And they say Uber Eats has affected even them. I've reproduced the story from The West Australian below:
One of two 24-hour chemists in WA claims it has become a casualty of the “stay-in generation” and is reducing its around-the-clock service in Mt Lawley after almost 20 years.
Dean Schulze, the co-owner of the Beaufort Street 24-hour Chemist, said changing market conditions — particularly the “Uber Eats and Netflix effect” — meant fewer people were venturing out late at night.
This had sounded the death knell for its 24-hour opening hours and from April 2 it will become the Beaufort Chemist and operate from 7am to 2am.
Mr Schulze said there was no continuing support for chemists in WA, unlike in Victoria, where the State Government subsidised pharmacies to stay open 24 hours a day.
He said his chemist had probably saved the WA Health Department millions of dollars over the years, with people coming in for medical advice in the middle of the night instead of going to a hospital emergency department.
“The after-hours part of our business has always come at a big financial cost to us but it’s one we’ve happily worn because the need was there,” he said.
“But times — and customers’ buying habits — are changing and we have to evolve.
“People don’t go out as much and we’re finding the 7pm-midnight trade is no longer enough to subsidise the overnights.”
Mr Schulze said the Victorian Government had spent almost $30 million rolling out 20 Supercare pharmacies operating 24-hour services across Victoria.
Government-funded services in those pharmacies included free after-hours nursing treatment, wound management, immunisations and referrals to other health experts.
Mr Schulze’s chemist had self-funded similar services in an urgent care nurse clinic, which would continue to operate from 6pm to midnight.
I don't know why Casey's, McKenzies and Madison Avenue closed but I wonder if it's also got to do with the Uber Eats things - people come home, flop on the couch, order their booze and eats from Uber Eats and then watch cable TV. So they don't go out. Who knows, Uber Eats could end up killing the geese that laid the golden eggs.
https://emails.thewest.com.au/subsc...ticleLinkBanner&utm_content=ArticleLinkBanner
So why would it affect the brothel part of the sex business? I only say this because Mount Lawley, until recently, had a 24 hour Chemist (the legal kind). Now it opens from 7a.m. to 2a.m. And they say Uber Eats has affected even them. I've reproduced the story from The West Australian below:
One of two 24-hour chemists in WA claims it has become a casualty of the “stay-in generation” and is reducing its around-the-clock service in Mt Lawley after almost 20 years.
Dean Schulze, the co-owner of the Beaufort Street 24-hour Chemist, said changing market conditions — particularly the “Uber Eats and Netflix effect” — meant fewer people were venturing out late at night.
This had sounded the death knell for its 24-hour opening hours and from April 2 it will become the Beaufort Chemist and operate from 7am to 2am.
Mr Schulze said there was no continuing support for chemists in WA, unlike in Victoria, where the State Government subsidised pharmacies to stay open 24 hours a day.
He said his chemist had probably saved the WA Health Department millions of dollars over the years, with people coming in for medical advice in the middle of the night instead of going to a hospital emergency department.
“The after-hours part of our business has always come at a big financial cost to us but it’s one we’ve happily worn because the need was there,” he said.
“But times — and customers’ buying habits — are changing and we have to evolve.
“People don’t go out as much and we’re finding the 7pm-midnight trade is no longer enough to subsidise the overnights.”
Mr Schulze said the Victorian Government had spent almost $30 million rolling out 20 Supercare pharmacies operating 24-hour services across Victoria.
Government-funded services in those pharmacies included free after-hours nursing treatment, wound management, immunisations and referrals to other health experts.
Mr Schulze’s chemist had self-funded similar services in an urgent care nurse clinic, which would continue to operate from 6pm to midnight.
I don't know why Casey's, McKenzies and Madison Avenue closed but I wonder if it's also got to do with the Uber Eats things - people come home, flop on the couch, order their booze and eats from Uber Eats and then watch cable TV. So they don't go out. Who knows, Uber Eats could end up killing the geese that laid the golden eggs.
https://emails.thewest.com.au/subsc...ticleLinkBanner&utm_content=ArticleLinkBanner
