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Originally Posted by fotze2
Ya and people don’t buy a phone protector for 7 dollars because it will arrive the next day, then buy paper towels the next day, then some triscuits on sale the next. Then some batteries because the remote doesn’t work, then a brake pad the next, then some perfume, then an order from Valbella, then groceries.
Absolutely preposterous it reduces traffic.
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OK, But how much of that stuff got bought anyway before?
Maybe the triscuits, batteries, and paper towels previously got purchased at a grocery store during a shopping trip that's still happening so no savings.
The perfume and phone case were a trip to the mall, figure that's one trip saved because they would have been combined. And the brake pads were a separate trip to Napa.
If those 7 trips from the Amazon warehouse stop 2 shopping trips, it's probably a net reduction in km driven. Because each of those 7 trips had 50-100 other items delivered all close by.
So those 7 warehouse trips might save like 100 shorter individual trips. I think at worst it's break-even from a traffic point of view.
The traffic is getting worse because the city is very fast.