I never really thought about it, but could online shopping + delivery actually be much more environmentally friendly? i.e rather than having everyone drive do to their own shopping.

This is with the assumption that a single delivery truck can hit multiple customers on their route, and in the context of more rural\suburban areas.

I think the problem with that is how many cold foods won't do well outside of the freezer for more than 30 minutes, so any combined delivery would have to be purely opportunistic (eg. The delivery destinations being within a few miles of each other, and ordered/scheduled close enough together as to still meet delivery windows) and/or filtered so that people with cold items get their items first.

...or they could use freezer boxes in the delivery truck, like I get in Singapore?

This crosses into personal attack. That's not allowed on HN and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I go to help my wife (I enjoy looking around). We take my mother inlaw because she has macular degeneration and can't see that well to drive. The kids like to come for a slice of pizza or a hotdog and we enjoy being with them.

I'm sorry that offends you.

No one should be offended because you enjoy different things in life than they do.

Perhaps if they somehow first convince themselves that the “whole world is suffering” because someone has a vehicle which can fit their nuclear family in it, and second convince themselves that condescending you on a message forum is an appropriate way to somehow lessen that behavior...

But no, that comment is just out of order.

I saw an interesting article today “Joe Rogan World vs NPR World” [1] which describes our current political environment, and it seems to me this type of interaction is emblematic of it.

[1] - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/joe-rogan-wor...

Sad that your mother in law can't go to Costco on her own because she can't drive anymore.

I also prefer shopping alone - have a list, get in, get it over with asap, and get out. I pity the people who enjoy shopping, although due to us not enjoying it, we're obviously the ones who should be pitied.