Millennials are becoming the force driving how everything will be bought and sold. Wine drinking among them has dropped considerately while the sales of craft beer is shooting through the roof. Micro Breweries are becoming the “new fast food” places the Millennials love to visit.
They love their apps and have no hesitation trying one after another until they find a few they use until the next batch of apps appear. Just ask fast food and mainstream restaurants. If they don’t offer GrubHub, DoorDash or Uber Eats to their online customers they will soon find their market share dwindling quickly.
Now another new entry into the food app war is making vast inroads. CloudKitchens allows their kitchens to be used as prep kitchens for large restaurants, gives independent chefs and cooks kitchen space for preparing ‘delivery only’ food and Food Truck operators are using the kitchen space to expand their menu selections.
Millennials apparently don’t like going to the grocery store store, getting a cart and walking up and down every aisle. They now use the grocery store’s app to select their groceries and have strangers pick their items, bag them and have them ready for pick-up or delivered directly to their home. Walmart will even put away your refrigerated and frozen groceries in your refrigerator.
With the slow erosion of on-site and modular new home builders serving the single family housing market, look for new apps to appear to fill the void.
Tract builders are already using a combination of websites and apps to give the Millennial new home buyer a way to shop for their new home, order it, finance it and arrange a move-in date all without leaving their sofa.
New site built and modular homes may soon fall into the same scenario of having the customer visit a website and tie it to an app where design, planning, financing and all the other components will be managed over the Internet without the customer ever personally meeting the builder.
Single Family modular home factories may soon begin offering total vertical integration using apps to design, sell and finish the customer’s home or maybe modular home builders will form alliances or franchises and work to develop websites and apps to bring the entire homebuilding process onto the customer’s sofa just like buying groceries from home.
With the lack of new home builders replacing those builders that are retiring in record numbers, building programs to replace them will become more Internet based and to be quite honest, Millennials couldn’t be more pleased.
