Our home delivery habit reshaped the world

Post by ceejayoz » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

pif wrote: post #11

shantly wrote: post #7

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And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself , or some close proxy for it. Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery so they have a harder time faking lower prices or otherwise making it seem like the higher costs are for any reason other than the way they're doing business. While we're at it we could make trucking companies pay for the actual amount of wear they put on the roads and the costs to bui…

> And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself [...] Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery Congratulations! You have discovered gas taxes ;-)

Post by dominotw » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

ptah wrote: post #8

shantly wrote: post #7

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And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself , or some close proxy for it. Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery so they have a harder time faking lower prices or otherwise making it seem like the higher costs are for any reason other than the way they're doing business. While we're at it we could make trucking companies pay for the actual amount of wear they put on the roads and the costs to bui…

good point, the tax on a truck should be proportional to the wear and tear of that truck on the road

Post by fr0sty » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #15

dashundchen wrote: post #3

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I think that assessment is unfair to the author. The article even talks about the warehouses and logistics in a pre-same-day shipping world, and compares it to the pace and scale required by the new delivery model. The point I took from the author is that the expectation of same-day or even two hour shipping is erasing the barriers to consumption. There's a big difference between a weekly walk to shop or drive to the…

I wish I could tell amazon to just ship everything together on a particular day instead of piecemeal. Just because I ordered on Monday doesn’t mean I need it Tuesday. And you’d think they’d learn that there is no front-desk on Sundays before 10AM, but no. Ugh.

Post by 1996 » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 6:12 PM UTC

kilo_bravo_3 wrote: post #4

dashundchen wrote: post #3

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I think that assessment is unfair to the author. The article even talks about the warehouses and logistics in a pre-same-day shipping world, and compares it to the pace and scale required by the new delivery model. The point I took from the author is that the expectation of same-day or even two hour shipping is erasing the barriers to consumption. There's a big difference between a weekly walk to shop or drive to the…

I consume less with online shopping. With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door. No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the we…

Post by nradov » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

dashundchen wrote: post #3

Nasrudith wrote: post #2

The media really seem to love pushing downright naive logistical assumptions trying to make online shopping a villain while expecting us to believe our own cars and brick and mortar store's logistics run on pixie farts. You never see them talking about the impact of junk mail. To be frank at this point it feels like they are trying to extort ad money to stop negative press coverage.

I think that assessment is unfair to the author. The article even talks about the warehouses and logistics in a pre-same-day shipping world, and compares it to the pace and scale required by the new delivery model. The point I took from the author is that the expectation of same-day or even two hour shipping is erasing the barriers to consumption. There's a big difference between a weekly walk to shop or drive to the…