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Online home services are transforming our lives, providing us more time and freedom, as services bring groceries, food and practically anything else we need or want right to our doorstep.
Most of us in modern life struggle for time. Many people have work schedules that extend beyond 40 hours per week, then there’s shopping and other obligations, leaving them little time to spend with their families or on extending their education or personal development.
Because of these facts, a solution to this dilemma has come along as a way of giving people more time back, and that solution is home services that will take care of some of the routine things such as housework, shopping and meal preparation.
Online shopping has transformed retail businesses in the United States and a similar transformation is taking place for a variety of home services obtained through the Internet that is changing how we shop, get our meals, transportation and numerous other things we need in life. In
Every day brings a new availability of a type of home service one can acquire by simply going online.
We’ve already seen how online shopping brings practically any product right to our doorstep without the need for us to travel to a store. Unfortunately for physical retailers, it’s forcing many of them out of business.
Uber and lyft have replaced taxi companies. Airbnb has replaced bed-and-breakfast, hotels and motels for some people.
So it should be no surprise that other businesses are following this model and offering services that can be ordered online.
Here are some examples:
This is one home service that the big players were quick to jump on before online startups beat them to it. Fry’s, Walmart and Amazon all offer grocery delivery. However, they do have competition such as Instacart, Shipt, Peapod.
All of these services will bring groceries directly to your door so that you don’t have to be bothered with going to the supermarket.
Another highly competitive home services market is food delivery in the list of services jumping into the game is continually growing.
It’s as simple as using an app on your smartphone and most services have arrangements with popular restaurants so you can get food from a wide variety of sources.
But it goes much further than just simply ordering a meal. You can actually plan out and schedule all of your meals for delivery in advance.
Some of the top companies offering home services for food delivery are: Grubhub, UberEats, DoorDash, Seamless, Postmates, Delivery.com, Yelp Eat 24, Foodler, Caviar and the list goes on.
Home services for domestic help is another growing area allowing busy people to easily find housekeepers and cleaning services, as well as, handymen who can do tasks such as assembling furniture, mounting things on walls, TV assembly, or even home improvement projects.
The good thing about these services as it allows you to use vetted, background-checked professionals, as well as examine customer ratings. Websites such as Handy, Housekeeper, TaskRabbit, Takl are among the most popular
Home services are going to continue to be a growing service area. Not only does it benefit consumers, but it also benefits providers by expanding their customer base and doing the marketing work for them.
It’s predicted that by 2024, 70% of consumers will shop for groceries online, according to a joint report by the Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen. It’s reasonable to expect that all areas of home services will also grow accordingly.
