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Re:New Cities by JoshTriplett on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:01PM (#11988036)
If it's more efficient for you to make one trip to the store rather than several, it's even more efficient for the store to send one truck to make deliveries to many people in one trip.

Even more so if enough people do so that the store can switch from a storefront laid out for customers (with cashiers, displays, and tags on shelves) to a warehouse.

Re:New Cities by thaumasiotes on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:07PM (#11988073)
That's true. But they don't.

Safeway has a long-running delivery program, but they sure aren't pushing it very hard.

The system in Shanghai, where you might expect delivery to be popular, is that supermarkets operate their own buses which stop near your home. It solves the "the store is far away" problem, but it does nothing for the "I need more food than I can personally carry" problem.

Re:New Cities by mixmastamyk on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:18PM (#11988187)
That's called a cart, see above.
Re:New Cities by thaumasiotes on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:38PM (#11988384)
No, you can't take a grocery cart on a bus.
Re:New Cities by mixmastamyk on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:49PM (#11989354)
Not true, in Los Angeles at least, outside of rush hour.

You moved the goal post also. In the thread above we are talking about a 10-minute walk.

Re:New Cities by thaumasiotes on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:07PM (#11989505)
No, we're not talking about a 10-minute walk. You responded to my comment 'It solves the "the store is far away" problem, but it does nothing for the "I need more food than I can personally carry" problem.'

A cart is not actually responsive to that, because it reintroduces the other problem.

Re:New Cities by mixmastamyk on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @01:18AM (#11991626)
> There's a bigger issue here. Suppose the grocery store was 10 minutes away. You'd still need to drive there, because how are you going to get the food back to your house?
Re:New Cities by thaumasiotes on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:28PM (#11996217)
If you want to respond to that comment, respond to that comment.
Re:New Cities by a_t48 on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:55PM (#11989400)
Yes you can. I see it in SF, all the time.