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They say, 1 order per household & 3000 orders per day for 7 days. That's 21000 different deliveries (even if you order twice with a different account on a diffe
by enscr 13y ago
They say, 1 order per household & 3000 orders per day for 7 days. That's 21000 different deliveries (even if you order twice with a different account on a different day, it's still a different delivery). An average of 2 km run per delivery & a mileage of 117 mpg (50 kmpl) would amount to 211 gallons (800 litres) of fuel. (they use 100-125 cc fuel efficient bikes, ignoring the bulk transportation by bus/train to the end point delivery hub)
That's a nice blot on the environment. Burning fuel for delivering 1 Kg of onions to scattered destinations all over the country, brilliant idea, though not that conscious.
Onion is something you can easily buy from the shop around the corner. And saving a few bucks won't change your living standard. People are ordering for fun.
On the other hand, offering discounted mobile recharge would have been eco friendly. But that's not the burning topic amongst a country that's obsessed with bargains :)
- brazzy 13y ago> And saving a few bucks won't change your living standard. People are ordering for fun. Great way to demonstrate first world myopia. A large portion of the people in India live on no more than a few bucks per day. To them, this can be the difference between being well-fed and going hungry. Which is the biggest possible change in living standard.
- enscr 13y agoYeah right ! You completely missed the context. Picked one sentence out of the whole argument and didn't realize who it's being targeted at. The ones who are living on a few bucks a day aren't the ones logging on to groupon at 1pm to compete for those onion prices for the 10 minutes that it lasted. Neither do they have broadband, credit cards, netbanking. Neither are they the target consumer for groupon.
- VLM 13y agoAs for well fed, One Kg of onion is about 300 calories... its not like sucking down olive oil or even beef. So if you're starving to death it'll delay death by only a couple hours at most. As for going hungry one Kg even eaten raw is less bulk than you'd think.