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You can fly me in from Australia mate and I`ll show you how to cook the best barbie or grill as you guys like to call it, you have ever experienced.

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Excellent Idea!! And hey, it`s not "my" idea to have free business ideas! In fact, that`d be a cool topical section for the forums here, wouldn`t it? There are countless ideas people spin off as they`re working on their own passion, company, and business. It`s a shame that some of those ideas just disappear.

Then people could look at the ideas sort of as a fun thing, and maybe see immediately why the idea wouldn`t work, or be too expensive/costly, etc. When it was all said and done, those folks who are looking for an idea could just grab one from the "rack" and go build a business for it. :-)

LOL!! That`s another great idea! The ONLY thing I could see as a problem would be all this nonsense about how we can`t have kids running around pretending to be violent. I remember when I was a kid it was automatic to play War, Cowboys & Indians (we called them Injuns, in those days), and Car Crash.

Then again, there are all those paint-ball fields around, so maybe violence is still an acceptable American past-time. :-) Even without the guns though, "Sergeant Sam" would be fantastic! They could have tents, "K Rations," and learn how to use an entrenching tool..! I like it! Oh...and then there`d be the walkie-talkies, "C-Company," and "D-Company....."

One idea I had awhile ago and I thought it could work...

I saw a store in Japan once that was targeted at females ages 30-40.. selling products and food they would use. However, the store had so many features and things going on inside, people would come in flocks just to be there.

I thought, wouldn`t it be great if we took the Barnes and Noble model to a grocery store? A classy place with things to do. There are many women who spend time in grocery stores when they don`t want to. They see the same faces during the day. They`re mothers and wives. What if we had a supermarket set up with a coffee shop, place to relax for awhile, a place to test recipes for a small price, a place for the kids to play... ya know..

Going to the market suddenly wouldn`t be so rough.

In the end, I wouldn`t really endeavor to start a company like this, as I don`t have the expertise with that market. But it would surely be cool.



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Collin Cummings
President, Drop Box, LLC
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Long ago, the market place was indeed a center of social networking. Recreating that atmosphere wouldn`t be difficult, but I wonder, given the profit margins in food sales, whether or not it would be financially sustainable.

Ironically enough, in the Soviet Union stores would often have personal shoppers who would guide the customer from product to product. It was a sort of make-work thing, to keep the population doing something in order go feel as if they were contributing. :-) People would come in, sit down, explain to the "waiter" or "waitress" what they wanted, and the clothing or other products would be brought to them.