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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by necovek on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:21AM (#29108312)
If delivery happens by the same means you would have been doing it (eg. a car), it adds nothing to the communal or ecological value of a neighbourhood — it's merely a consumer's convenience in saving time.

Only if delivery was organized in a way to deliver to multiple households in the same area does it start to make sense from an ecological perspective: but your neighbourhood still has to have those delivery trucks in the walking/biking paths.

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by jsnell on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:39AM (#29108540)
A delivery person will probably not do a roundtrip between the store and your house, just for your groceries. They'll have an optimized route for doing a dozen deliveries at once, and amortize the ecological / social cost across all of them.

It's a bit like a bus vs. a car. They're not equal, even if they both drive on the same roads.

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by dr_dshiv on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:43PM (#29110280)
Most of the deliveries take place by bike, at least for the fast delivery sites. For the stores and others, they have trucks that deliver to 20-50 people. So, you replace many cars with a single trip.
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