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It's interesting to see Fresh Direct figure so prominently in this because they're kind of the original two day shipping company in NYC. They've been delivering
by bogomipz 7y ago
It's interesting to see Fresh Direct figure so prominently in this because they're kind of the original two day shipping company in NYC. They've been delivering groceries to online shoppers since the early 2000s. Also their warehouse has always been inside the city in LIC, Queens. The complaints about them and their trucks with loud refrigeration units are just as old. This is from a decade ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/nyregion/25fresh.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/nyregion/25fresh.html
It's not like these delivery issues came out of nowhere. There was plenty of time for the DOT, the state and city council to look at data, study these trends and adjust policy accordingly. But like everything else it needs to reach some crisis level before any appreciable action is undertaken.