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didn't expect a walmart vs amazon struggle session in these comments, but there it is! what a world.
if you're talking about me I'm not pro amazon or whatever, but I am pro "never have customers interacting with a store full of merchandise, even under communism" like I am sorry but unless you're going to gulag bad customers who don't do the work of picking up after themselves, it is dogshit slavery that needs to be abolished. No more of it. No more hours of peoples' lives wasted cleaning up after fellow adults just because they're fucking lazy. so I am pro "warehouse distribution model" if anything.
man I used to shoplift tea tree essential oil and they just stopped carrying it. now if i want to buy it it's like 28 dollars online??? I need to find a different brand I guess idk
You gotta find the warehouse where the oil is stored and do the old hi-viz vest trick
Definitely depends on the area and a handful of variables, but I feel like there's an environmental argument to be had for frequent good deliveries to households.
It could be scheduled in a similar way as waste management and households just put in a recurring order that they could update every week with one off needs. Heck, it could even get fancy and offer to let you pick your produce at the door or van. It could be door-to-door or block-by-block with assistance for people that need it.
If this was a socially supported and accepted model for getting basic goods then a non-small amount of car trips would just not happen.
It would be really interesting if someone with a background in this and access to relevant numbers could see if something like that would be beneficial, or could think outside the box for other ways to make spread out metropolitan life slightly less environmentally shit (with the caveat that significant structural changes still need to happen obv).
Neither did I, I wash my hands of it!