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What a preposterous suggestion. Should we start having Taco Bell service our cars?

by dcurtis 18y ago

alaskamiller 18y ago
If YUM wants to switch its core competency from serving fast food to automobile servicing... why not? Snark aside, there's a current trend in "retail healthcare" that I think is really interesting. Drug stores like RiteAid and Walgreens experimented with posting a doctor at each store to provide basic diagnosis for approachable prices on a 9 to 5 scale. That combined with cheap generic prescription drugs, it's become a very good health service for people that don't have jobs that provide medical care. Will this scale to other more advanced medical treatments? Maybe. That's what the article is talking about.
- dcurtis 18y ago
  Maybe I should have expanded a bit. I think the WalMart healthcare system would be about as good as the WalMart-branded clothing. Not good. If Taco Bell started to service your car while you were in the drive through, some men in business suits might say it's a good synergistic initiative. I mean, your car is already there in the drive through. But really, Taco Bell makes horrifically shitty tacos. Is that even meat they use? It's embedded deeply in the corporate culture to make shitty tacos, and I am positive the same philosophies they use in building their tacos would go into the quality of their in-drive-through-car-repair. WalMart, similarly, does everything cheaply and fucks with entire markets by using their power to demand certain prices or functionality. WalMart effectively morphs some companies into Wal*Mart-like companies. I think it would be stupid to assume they wouldn't do the exact same thing to healthcare professionals. Can you imagine having the same person who negotiated the price of a toilet bowl brush down from $1.99 to $0.99 by demanding the toilet brush company use half as much plastic as being the same person negotiating with the doctor to delay your xray a few days?

What a preposterous suggestion. Should we start having Taco Bell service our cars?

by dcurtis 18y ago

What a preposterous suggestion. Should we start having Taco Bell service our cars?

If YUM wants to switch its core competency from serving fast food to automobile servicing... why not? Snark aside, there's a current trend in "retail healthcare" that I think is really interesting. Drug stores like RiteAid and Walgreens experimented with posting a doctor at each store to provide basic diagnosis for approachable prices on a 9 to 5 scale. That combined with cheap generic prescription drugs, it's become a very good health service for people that don't have jobs that provide medical care. Will this scale to other more advanced medical treatments? Maybe. That's what the article is talking about.

dcurtis 18y ago
Maybe I should have expanded a bit. I think the WalMart healthcare system would be about as good as the WalMart-branded clothing. Not good. If Taco Bell started to service your car while you were in the drive through, some men in business suits might say it's a good synergistic initiative. I mean, your car is already there in the drive through. But really, Taco Bell makes horrifically shitty tacos. Is that even meat they use? It's embedded deeply in the corporate culture to make shitty tacos, and I am positive the same philosophies they use in building their tacos would go into the quality of their in-drive-through-car-repair. WalMart, similarly, does everything cheaply and fucks with entire markets by using their power to demand certain prices or functionality. WalMart effectively morphs some companies into Wal*Mart-like companies. I think it would be stupid to assume they wouldn't do the exact same thing to healthcare professionals. Can you imagine having the same person who negotiated the price of a toilet bowl brush down from $1.99 to $0.99 by demanding the toilet brush company use half as much plastic as being the same person negotiating with the doctor to delay your xray a few days?