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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazon is very much not a monopoly. There are thousands of online retailers. There are also a lot of delivery services, no idea if there are thousands, but there's a lot.

[–] Carighan 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't it more planet reponsible then to order from Amazon where, if I order say 6 items, they'll come from the same warehouse in the same delivery (at least ove here!) instead of in 6 deliveries from 6 different vendors who also all had to get individual deliveries of their stock first?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lol your statement doesn't hold true for where I live. We live more or less in the vicinity of the nearest Amazon warehouse, like 50 km away...

When we order several (like 6) items, they send 6 packages, each individually packed, with 6 delivery drivers over two days, ringing three times a day (noon, afternoon, late evening).

This is purely anecdotal but almost comically bad logistics.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Weird. I usually get the option to combine items in a single load, even if it means delaying some items to arrive together with others.

[–] Carighan 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds almost like a parody of Amazon. 🤣

[–] Aux 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's better to bulk order from Amazon. Just don't order one small thing like a screwdriver, a whole truck driving around for your 100g package is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely it's still more efficient for the truck to carry that screwdriver and a whole truckload of other goods, in a single journey, with optimised route, rather than me (and every other Amazon shopper) driving my car to the nearest hardware store to buy that screwdriver?

[–] Aux -4 points 1 year ago