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jampekka
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Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
The resistors to your local store have to go through logistics as well. And doing the last mile yourself is a lot more inefficient than a post service doing it.
Transport is also quite small fraction of most products' environmental costs.
1over137
20 days ago
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>And doing the last mile yourself is a lot more inefficient than a post service doing it.
How do you figure?
walls
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One guy driving a route between 100 places is probably more efficient than 100 people all driving to and from a place.
1over137
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Ah, you're assuming the customer is driving a car. That had skipped my mind, but this story is about the USA so it's probably a valid assumption.
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Transport is also quite small fraction of most products' environmental costs.