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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by jhoechtl on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:51AM (#25238638)
> What you propose would reverse that and increase carbon

You forget that by adding a price tag on delivery certain purchases wont be made. Also I would certainly batch my purchases instead of going three times a day to the retail store.

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mlyle on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:16PM (#25240171)
If I buy 3 things separately in a day from Amazon, usually I get one box. (It's only when the things are not all at the closest fulfillment center that there's multiple shipments).
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by stjohnswarts on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:46PM (#25242253)
Same, I'm pretty sure if the products are all available in the same warehouse they will get shipped in the same box for efficiency purposes. I don't think such a simple system efficiency would be overlooked by Amazon logistics engineers.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by pixl97 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:38PM (#25239876)
Before the pandemic i saw many people make multiple trips per day to different retail stores. This isn't new behavior for these people and disincentivizing their behavior is going to be difficult.
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