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Re:Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trade... by leokennis on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:41PM (#14791238)
The problem is, if you want to cheaply ship cheap stuff quickly, you need to reduce costs. So no time to have your packers pick from 20 sizes of boxes; just toss everything in a huge box. No time to handle returns of broken shipments; just stuff those huge boxes with tons of air bags. No time to actually check what's in the boxes (towels or a vase) because you need to pack 200 boxes an hour to break even.

If "we" want to stop trashing the world, first we need to show we are willing to pay for that.

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Re:Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trade... by r00fus on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:08PM (#14791436)
> If "we" want to stop trashing the world, first we need to show we are willing to pay for that.

This is the typical supply-side dodge. Consumers have little to no power here. I can't dictate to Amazon or major shipping companies (I do buy AMZN's frustration-free when I can).

What option is there? Do you propose I compete with the packaging with my own offering?

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Re:Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trade... by abandonliberty on Monday July 17, 2017 @05:18PM (#14792334)
Wouldn't this paraphrase as "I have no power, so I will continue financially supporting them." ?

Consumers blame suppliers, suppliers blame consumers. No one has to do anything. Long live the status quo! :)

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Re:Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trade... by r00fus on Monday July 17, 2017 @08:16PM (#14793390)
> suppliers blame consumers

That's the dodge right there. Easy as a supplier to simply say "we provide what the consumer wants" to justify all business decisions. Courage, that is.

This is normally where the government or watchdog organizations get involved - those have been gutted or defanged in the past few decades... by business interest group lobbying.

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Re:Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trade... by pera on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:20PM (#14791524)
Maybe the boxes could be foldable, or easily and space-efficiently stackable.
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