izentrop wrote:Yeah, online sales in general work because oil is artificially cheap.
All these vans that run almost empty, on small country roads, contribute to the acceleration of global warming if you look at it closely.
Disagree: in traditional shops you also have to deliver, right? Worse, you have to deliver (at least) twice: the store and the customer (who comes how in your opinion?)
After all is a question of delivery optimization ... and Amazon has been shitting on it for some time!
I have been ordering on Amazon since 2002 ... and I have noticed for about 1 year that Amazon was doing anything: despite the grouping of products when ordering (option "Receive items in a minimum of deliveries") and the fact that I'm in no hurry, it is delivered more and more often with the 1 product 1 package method ... even when the packages arrive the same day at the same place ...
I recently placed an order with 8 small products of a similar nature ... the 8 would have entered a standardized letter box in a single package ... Bin I received 1 packages ...
Amazon has that many logistics centers? I do not believe !
I think Amazon has a desire to artificially inflate the number of its packages in order to increase its market share with respect to deliverers and therefore negotiate lower prices! American method ... who doesn't give a damn about the environment!
I usually deliver to a relay point to precisely (supposedly) optimize deliveries ... it's better to stop 1 van for 20 packages than for 1 ...
Okay: e-commerce tends to make people buy more ... like when you go to action, you need a product, you go out with 20 products ... policy of slashed prices ...