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is readily available at a store 1/2 mile from your house. How did that item get to the store?
by CWuestefeld 16y ago
is readily available at a store 1/2 mile from your house.
How did that item get to the store?
- pdebruic 16y agoTrue. But it was probably accompanied with many other copies of itself. Also the truck arriving at the store likely delivered more cargo per mile driven than a UPS/FedEx/Mail equivalent. Those services are more expensive ($/gasoline/packaging/...) than just shipping a truck full of toothpaste to a distribution center and then hundreds of tubes to a multitude of stores because of the piecemeal fashion in which they pick up and drop off at the ends of their networks.