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To: Cogito who wrote (83033)	9/9/2008 7:00:05 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541946

Then have the truck that drops the next load of appliances to the store haul the old ones back. Less clumsy, but still problematic. The delivery of the product to the store from which you buy it may not be from the factory but from some intermediate point. It may be made by an independent trucker whose next stop is to pick up potatoes at a third location and drop them at a fourth location. There may not be the same number of new appliances coming in as disposal items going back so the truck would have wasted space or not be large enough. The store from which you buy your new appliance may not carry the same brand as your old one so it wouldn't have any business arrangement with the manufacturer of the original appliance... Seems to me a local consolidation facility is the most natural and efficient. Big outfits like Home Depot could probably do their own thing but Joe's Appliances and Pawn Shop, not so much. and the local consolidation facility could be a new business line for those who already receive old appliances to dump so it wouldn't meet resistance from entrenched interests. Instead, new jobs.