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Do people in suburbia not make regular trips to the supermarket in their cars?
by angry_octet 7y ago
Do people in suburbia not make regular trips to the supermarket in their cars?
- pixl97 7y agoDepends, with grocery delivery services I find myself doing it less often. Also, if I do visit the store it may be after work and before I'm back home.
- angry_octet 7y agoImagine if you could only borrow a fixed amount of packaging at a time, and you had to return the excess (properly sorted and cleaned) before you could buy more. The more non-R material (light weight plastic like strawberry shells) the more your waste costs would go up. And why not rigid and reusable ABS trays for strawberries? Would the trucking cost for returning to the distribution centre be excessive? Or is it just that the entire supply chain assumes trucks return empty? An interesting example is CHEP pallets. They are only loaned, pallets come back eventually. Interesting operations research problems in moving pallets around.