I met Larry when I had lunch at Deli Italia.  He is a charming, interesting man who has lots of stories about everything related to ice.  He's 65 and delivers ice to this restaurant and McDonald's, Walgreens, or wherever in the area an ice machine breaks and they need ice right away.  He gets it to them within two hours. 

A larger company bought out a lot of the small, local ice dealers.  He proposed to them that he be a distributor for them because he is local and he can get ice to local restaurants in less than two hours and do it for less than it would cost for them to do it themselves.  So instead of being out of work, he's actively a local distributor doing good work for himself and his Rockford customers.