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Most of those are probably just drop shipping with no real economical value.
by ahoka 6y ago
Most of those are probably just drop shipping with no real economical value.
- iamacyborg 6y agoExcept for Shopify. I wonder what the ecological impact of all these dropshippers is.
- rtkwe 6y agoIsn't it roughly the same as any other online shopping? The main difference is it's not getting warehoused in the US first but most of the products will flow through the same shipping channels.
- iamacyborg 6y agoMy assumption is that a traditional approach where a retailer orders thousands of units at once has a lower ecological impact than shipping items out on a purchase-by-purchase basis. I could definitely be wrong though.
- rightbyte 6y agoYou are probably not wrong. In my experience online retail ofent package stuff in the most ridiculously sized containers too. Trucks driving around with air.
- bluGill 6y agoI doubt it. Everyone driving to the local retailer uses a lot of fuel. The truck uses more fuel than any two cars (this varies, but we can assume one is a SUV so close enough) for any distance, but the distance is overall much less because each car is going to the store, while the truck only needs to get from one house to the next, something shipping companies optimize. thus the amount of fuel assigned to any one package is less for the truck.
- rtkwe 6y agoDepends a lot on the shipping method used between the dropshipper and retail right? If the DS store is using boats for their packages they're probably about the same as that's at best what the retail group is using.