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Re:The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastati... by sevensor on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:00PM (#19819557)
Back in 2005 or so, I had a friend who was working at Amazon. When he told me he was ordering things like toothpaste, I could hardly believe it. His apartment was in easy walking distance of a drugstore, and I thought him ordering toothpaste from an online bookseller instead was insane. Little did I know he was living in the future.
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Re:The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastati... by Funes- on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:29PM (#19819803)
Yes, in a horrid future we find ourselves in right now. And it's just getting started.
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Re:The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastati... by mfatica on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:45PM (#19819992)
what's horrid about it exactly?
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Re:The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastati... by craftyguy on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:27PM (#19820350)
The additional resources to send your toothpaste many miles by plane, truck, etc in additional packaging because you don't want to travel to the local grocery store to buy it.
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Re:The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastati... by Veen on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:42PM (#19820502)
The toothpaste still has to travel from A to B, and it's probably more efficient for a single truck to deliver 200 items than for 200 people to get in their cars and go to the supermarket.
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Re:The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastati... by choward on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:59PM (#19821732)
I'm pretty sure nobody goes to the store just to get toothpaste.
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