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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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