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Re:The Same-Day War: Amazon, Google And Walmart Race To Brin... by vanattab on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @09:47PM (#7601609)
Have there been any studies as to if this type of service increases or decreases the "carbon footprint" of the food. My gut instinct says it would increase it at least until there is a certain critical mass of orders in a geographical area.
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Re:The Same-Day War: Amazon, Google And Walmart Race To Brin... by ape4 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @10:34PM (#7601756)
A truck can take a circuit and deliver to a bunch of people.
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Re:The Same-Day War: Amazon, Google And Walmart Race To Brin... by shiftb on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:41PM (#7606606)
It's better for the environment. One vehicle making multiple stops to customers is better than each of those customers going round trip to the store.

This article summarizes but has a link to the actual study http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2013-04/home-deliv...

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