>This is silly when I don't care about speed. If I cared that much about getting items ASAP, I'd find it locally You assume that truck comes only with your pro

>This is silly when I don't care about speed. If I cared that much about getting items ASAP, I'd find it locally You assume that truck comes only with your product? It might be 100% stocked with goods. And if you are talking about delivery guy coming to your place with a box, then if you wanted to buy it from store, you might also have spent as much as fuel to reach the store as that guy did from local fulfillment shop to your place. But how many times the guy comes with a single box? Routes/timings are optimized for max speed/utilisation and lower cost. Fuel costs environment and company bears the cost of the fuel, to maximize profits, they might as well optimize their costs and as a side effect better environment. I'd say we all should shop for everything online and it will give company best chance to optimize well. Also, faster speed doesn't necessarily mean more cost.