A lot of the convenience of online shopping is that it's shipped right to your door. Make it almost as inconvenient as having to go shopping and the appeal is dramatically lessened.

Besides, losing occasional packages is still less expensive than having to operate a retail store front in Manhattan!

We do, but probably not with 90k capacity across the city

The capacity of parcel shops seems to be a lot more than 90k based on my unsubstantiated guesswork; more likely things aren’t bad enough to merit a change https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/nyregion/nyc-amazon-deliv... say 1.5M total deliveries per day. This means 6% of packages are stolen. So 94% of the time, it works, and that’s good enough for most. What can be done?

In my neighborhood we have a constant gradual uptick in crime until someone catches a criminal in the act and blows them away. Then crime goes back down until enough criminals forget the potential consequences. This might not be possible in a city as dense as NYC but increasing the severity of punishment could help

Costs are eaten by retailers who then pass the cost back to consumers transparently.

> What can be done?

Explosive decoy packages.

Just in case you haven't seen it yet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo