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Markets in everything -- lawncare edition
The women of Tiger Time Lawn Care offer to mow customers' lawns dressed in bikinis...
A click here will get you through to a story and video. Thanks to Michael for the pointer.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on July 23, 2007 at 02:20 PM in Economics | Permalink
Comments
What is really remarkable is not that there's a lawn care company which uses women in bikinis, but that there's a lawn care company which is not comprised entirely of Latin American immigrants :)
Posted by: Peter at Jul 23, 2007 4:51:35 PM
Great idea, I would not be able to use em though, would for some reason feel like a complete ass. But good for them, hope they bring in the dollars.
Posted by: David at Jul 24, 2007 3:00:08 AM
It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where there is good naked & bad naked.
Posted by: kebko at Jul 24, 2007 3:13:11 AM
Last summer I hired a lawncare service run by a college kid. One of his two co-workers was a very attractive young women. Sure, it made economic sense for me to finally hire them to do this work, but man I felt like a total wuss watching a girl mow my lawn.
Posted by: Oberon at Jul 24, 2007 6:54:35 AM
In one small town near where I grew up, there was a gas station where ALL of the gas-jockeys (at least in summer) were attractive 18-21 year old women.
There was pretty much always a lineup for gas.
Of course, casual observation didn't reveal whether this was a strategy, or whether the owner of the station happened to have several attractive daughters.
Posted by: Chris MacDonald at Jul 24, 2007 8:03:17 AM
Chris: did you grow up in Mayville?
In the mid-70s there was a gas station near Lake Chautauqua in southwestern New York that offered full service by girls in bikinis. Yes, the price was substantially higher, and I'm sure the owner laughed all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Dave Tufte at Jul 24, 2007 12:27:51 PM
I used to see hot dog vending carts run by women
in bikinis. I'm surprised that more of this sort of thing
doesn't occur. It's not really that different from
how pharmaceutical companies hire good-looking women, and men,
to go to doctors' offices to promote their products.
Of course, since those people are professionally dressed,
it's socially acceptable.
Posted by: larry at Jul 24, 2007 2:13:50 PM
I saw a piece recently somewhere that said the big thing in Seattle now if for independently owned coffee houses to have young, female, baristas wearing bikinis.
The pharmaceutical companies typically hire trainees for their drug representative programs out of the big southern and mid-western schools that have cheerleading and dance programs. In addition to being athletic and good looking, the young ladies are really quite intelligent, a necessary skill when dealing with physicans.
Posted by: Dave Richardson at Jul 25, 2007 10:45:10 AM
Ahh, Fox News --- Fair & Balanced (and sexy!)
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