Evolution

It’s amazing how new markets and business opportunities are created by enterprising minds on an almost daily basis. First, people wanted to save money on providing after sales services for their products so they decided to outsource these services. Call centers were born. With these BPO-oriented organizations conducting their businesses at night, their employees needed places to eat, drink, and shop late at night and in the wee hours of the morning. There was then a marked increase in the number of 24-hour convenience stores and restaurants. The latest link in this chain is the evolution of the “dayclub”. Call center kids get off work very early in the morning and most of the time they, like their day-walking counterparts, need a place to unwind. Clever bar owners decided to get a piece of this consumer pie by having an early morning shift. These clubs/bars open at 4am and offer everything their night-bound cousins do, including live entertainment.

Now, with home theater apparently peaking, comes a new stage in its product evolution: home theater chairs. It’s sad because the way things are going, there’ll be home theater toilet seats by the time I get enough money to get me a decent home theater system.