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Employment in warehouses stays unchanged, because people are not buying more. They don't have more money to spend just by switching to online browsing.
by Dolores12 9y ago
Employment in warehouses stays unchanged, because people are not buying more. They don't have more money to spend just by switching to online browsing.
- richardwhiuk 9y agoDeliveries surely require more people though? Delivering to a store is less efficient than delivering to 100 houses.
- arethuza 9y agoYou are cutting out the requirement to build/lease a store and operate it - I suspect you could buy/lease and operate a lot of vans for the costs of a store.
- 11thEarlOfMar 9y agoI'm not sure this is true. Online prices tend to be lower than in store. So the cost of goods overall is lower and consumers effectively can buy more items. Also, when considering retail, the shipments from warehouse to store are in bulk, whereas shipments direct to consumer are small numbers of discrete items, which requires more handling for picking, packing and shipping.
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