At Wade’s Dairy in Bridgeport, Conn., the coronavirus pandemic has turned demand on its head and opened the door to a new—old—business idea: home delivery.

There were about 40,000 of them in early-seventies but only about 4,000 in the modern era and their customers are now more likely to be elderly people ordering smaller quantities.

The milkman's robot helper of the future as imagined by illustrator Arthur Radebaugh (1961) Arthur Radebaugh. Remember milkmen? Yeah, neither do I. In 2007, I ...

The milkman is to be congratulated. But, sadly, he serves as the preeminent example that only a few of us can take advantage of his offering. It is for the few.