Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
by zests on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:05PM
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How many trips to the store do these deliveries save? If I order something small it likely hitches a ride with my neighbors delivery and the delivery of the package itself will have negligible carbon footprint.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
by seanwilson on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:18PM
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How much extra packaging are you introducing with many small orders vs bulk orders?
Food shops in the UK can deliver without any bags at all for example. A single bottle of something from Amazon for instance will likely come in a cardboard box with some kind of plastic bubble wrap.
And is it really true that the driver is going to have items to delivery to almost every block of houses every day? Not everyone is shopping from the same retailer either.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
by ChickeNES on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:44PM
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> And is it really true that the driver is going to have items to delivery to almost every block of houses every day? Not everyone is shopping from the same retailer either.
My apartment literally has Amazon drivers coming twice a day with a cart full of packages