Regarding the Amazon post below, anyone think about environment concerns?
That last mile to deliver one item versus going to your local store to buy 20 items burns a lot of extra gas. So many friends that pretend they are worried about the environment order stuff from Amazon every day- hypocrites. I know some of their vans are electric now, but still...
** Edited by Will Stewart at 1/12/2026, 7:29:14 AM
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MikeVT85
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I kid, I kid
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Everyone going to the store in their own car to get their crap versus the one delivery truck. Amazon is basically mass transit for merchandise.
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and deliver 10 packages vs ten different people running to the store today.
Looked at from the single-user perspective, it is environmentally wasteful to order online vs. going to the store. But looked at in the aggregate, it might be a wash.
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are too. :) The Door Dash model amazes me.....
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Interesting edit ... 🤷🏼♂️🥷
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EDGEMAN
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...on the way to my house, so is it more economical for one Amazon delivery truck to deliver to 20 homes or for 20 people to drive to the store to buy an item? Just talking from an environmental perspective...
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individual item.
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For me to go to a store to buy an item, I have to travel between 5 and 15 miles, depending on the item, for 90% of what I might need. As a guess, the average Amazon van carries maybe 200 packages and travels maybe 150 miles per day. That's less than 1 mi/package. Obviously, all of that varies based on population density and your distance from retail locations but general math says package delivery is more efficient in terms of resources
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then mass package delivery, by the same logic, must also be a good thing.
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Link:
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Not intentionally...it will be oblivious to our destruction. TIC
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