Drones are getting better and will continue so getting, which will remarkably lower shipping costs and times. Consumers will benefit from this, as will the firm best able to take advantage of this, Amazon. But it also opens up a new model: libraries for everything.
I suspect a lot of things could already work on this level, except the actual issue with this model is initial capital. For instance, fancy clothes rental for dates and parties is a p big niche in my town. Libraries almost universally have some sort of setup to make aquisition of books cheaper than in consumer-facing stores, but as we already see with digital libraries, the publishers offering these deals take the difficulty and annoyance of using a library into account when offering them. If you make libraries more accessible, they want closer to consumer-facing prices. (Or even higher)
I suspect a lot of things could already work on this level, except the actual issue with this model is initial capital. For instance, fancy clothes rental for dates and parties is a p big niche in my town. Libraries almost universally have some sort of setup to make aquisition of books cheaper than in consumer-facing stores, but as we already see with digital libraries, the publishers offering these deals take the difficulty and annoyance of using a library into account when offering them. If you make libraries more accessible, they want closer to consumer-facing prices. (Or even higher)