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Originally Posted by bizaro86
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.
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They wouldn’t have been bought at all. 7 trips vs 1 even if we bought that back then. Maybe if you remembered it when going near a perfume store. It’s so accessible and cheap means it is now being warehoused here for instant delivery. Zero chance those logistics worked in the past.
I wouldn’t buy fart spray and chips ahoy back then if it took 4 weeks and 10 times the price. Half the vehicles on the road are Amazon trucks.
Do people actually think ordering on Amazon is better or at worst equal for the environment.