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Are you sure? Instead of driving to the store they drive to me. Why is it worse?

bhandziuk 7y ago
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad it there wasn't such a hurry. It's the next day or possible this day delivery that makes this so bad.
- manigandham 7y ago
  When people go shopping it's same day too, no matter how small or trivial the item is.
  - htek 7y ago
    People shopping for their own items usually don't have a deadline to get to the store and back so quickly that they deliberately endanger the lives of other people on the road by ignoring traffic laws.
  - bhandziuk 7y ago
    people usually don't go shopping every day possibly multiple times a day. Whereas Amazon gives them the ability to order things such that a car drives up to their house and delivers stuff multiple times per day.
  - PeterisP 7y ago
    Quite the opposite, people usually don't actually go out shopping just for a single trivial item, they delay the purchase until some later time when they go shopping for some important item or many trivial items at once. Splitting the same total purchases in many separate "shoppings" is the fragmentation problem that causes much more "delivery events".
    - manigandham 7y ago
      I find plenty of instances of people buying 1 thing at a store so it goes both ways. Regardless, the marginal cost of adding an extra stop to an optimized delivery route is very low compared to a shopping roundtrip for a single consumer.
stronglikedan 7y ago
It's more like, instead of you and each of your neighbors driving to the store separately, you're driving to the store alone and getting groceries for yourself and all your neighbors at the same time.
CardenB 7y ago
People don't usually drive to the store every single day for a single item, whereas amazon would deliver a single item to people every single day.
- manigandham 7y ago
  That same delivery vehicle can service 100s of homes at once though, which is why it's more efficient regardless of 1-day delivery windows. I'm sure they could do a better job of batching deliveries for a single drop off per day but I don't think that's as bad as it might seem considering the overall reduction in consumer-to-store travel.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad it there wasn't such a hurry. It's the next day or possible this day delivery that makes this so bad.

manigandham 7y ago
When people go shopping it's same day too, no matter how small or trivial the item is.
- htek 7y ago
  People shopping for their own items usually don't have a deadline to get to the store and back so quickly that they deliberately endanger the lives of other people on the road by ignoring traffic laws.
- bhandziuk 7y ago
  people usually don't go shopping every day possibly multiple times a day. Whereas Amazon gives them the ability to order things such that a car drives up to their house and delivers stuff multiple times per day.
- PeterisP 7y ago
  Quite the opposite, people usually don't actually go out shopping just for a single trivial item, they delay the purchase until some later time when they go shopping for some important item or many trivial items at once. Splitting the same total purchases in many separate "shoppings" is the fragmentation problem that causes much more "delivery events".
  - manigandham 7y ago
    I find plenty of instances of people buying 1 thing at a store so it goes both ways. Regardless, the marginal cost of adding an extra stop to an optimized delivery route is very low compared to a shopping roundtrip for a single consumer.

stronglikedan 7y ago

It's more like, instead of you and each of your neighbors driving to the store separately, you're driving to the store alone and getting groceries for yourself and all your neighbors at the same time.

CardenB 7y ago

People don't usually drive to the store every single day for a single item, whereas amazon would deliver a single item to people every single day.

manigandham 7y ago
That same delivery vehicle can service 100s of homes at once though, which is why it's more efficient regardless of 1-day delivery windows. I'm sure they could do a better job of batching deliveries for a single drop off per day but I don't think that's as bad as it might seem considering the overall reduction in consumer-to-store travel.