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Having N people drive to your neighborhood could be more efficient than M people driving to the store individually if M >> N. So now when you want something you
by rcme 3y ago
Having N people drive to your neighborhood could be more efficient than M people driving to the store individually if M >> N. So now when you want something you drive to the store? How is that better?
- aubanel 3y agoI think the key difference is that in the absence of fast delivery, when you need something, you'll just wait a bit until you have more things to buy. So you'll do one trip to the store for 10 items. Plus you'll go to other places on the way (and meet people but that's another aspect). So the real number is not M but M // 10. So i'd say fast delivery indeed increases the number of trips, since it enables people to be lazier and just order whenever they need something.
- rcme 3y agoDoes it really matter if the delivery driver is going to be on your street anyway? Or put another way, imagine you live on a street with 10 households. On average, one household might drive to store each day to pick up 10 items. Isn't it nearly the same efficiency if one person drives from the store to your street once a day to make deliveries to some / all of the households?