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A truck delivers to them once every few days/weeks, the ones doing the last mile to my nearby store are quite often electric. Since it's a truck they can delive
by piva00 2y ago
A truck delivers to them once every few days/weeks, the ones doing the last mile to my nearby store are quite often electric. Since it's a truck they can deliver a literal truckload of it instead of relying on some individual deliver point-to-point, economies of scale and all.
- Symbiote 2y agoAnd also the shop receives the toothpaste as a carton of 48 or 96 tubes or whatever it is, with little space wasted. With an individual delivery you get several times the volume of wasted space, plus at least one wasted layer of corrugated cardboard — which must then be taken away using a different truck. However, the shop does use better climate control and lighting than the warehouse.