Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to America’s Streets

Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by dantheman on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:38PM (#20868984)

You are assuming they only go to the store once a week; and that there isn't a cost to them not having what they need when they need it. The cost can be in reduced productivity/time loss, etc or it can be in over-provisioning in which you buy extras that aren't needed (and may never be used).

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by davidw on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:05PM (#20869311)

Lots of assumptions and unknowns.

Implement a carbon tax and watch the market reconfigure itself.

Also: let's re-legalize corner stores!

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by harimau777 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:12PM (#20870044)

Just because a carbon tax re-organizes the market doesn't mean that the organization that it "chooses" is good.

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by davidw on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:20PM (#20870124)

It means the reorganization will optimize for less carbon usage though, which I happen to think is pretty good.

Electric vehicles might complicate things some (they still present some other negative externalities despite using less carbon); perhaps at that time we can look at other incentives or taxes.

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