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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by CardenB on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:10PM (#20870026)
People don't usually drive to the store every single day for a single item, whereas amazon would deliver a single item to people every single day.
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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by manigandham on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:21PM (#20870148)
That same delivery vehicle can service 100s of homes at once though, which is why it's more efficient regardless of 1-day delivery windows.

I'm sure they could do a better job of batching deliveries for a single drop off per day but I don't think that's as bad as it might seem considering the overall reduction in consumer-to-store travel.

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