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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
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That would only be true if Amazon had real competition and would not be acting like a monopoly, as many other companies do.
Amazon is very much not a monopoly. There are thousands of online retailers. There are also a lot of delivery services, no idea if there are thousands, but there's a lot.
Isn't it more planet reponsible then to order from Amazon where, if I order say 6 items, they'll come from the same warehouse in the same delivery (at least ove here!) instead of in 6 deliveries from 6 different vendors who also all had to get individual deliveries of their stock first?
Lol your statement doesn't hold true for where I live. We live more or less in the vicinity of the nearest Amazon warehouse, like 50 km away...
When we order several (like 6) items, they send 6 packages, each individually packed, with 6 delivery drivers over two days, ringing three times a day (noon, afternoon, late evening).
This is purely anecdotal but almost comically bad logistics.....
Weird. I usually get the option to combine items in a single load, even if it means delaying some items to arrive together with others.
That sounds almost like a parody of Amazon. 🤣
Yes, it's better to bulk order from Amazon. Just don't order one small thing like a screwdriver, a whole truck driving around for your 100g package is dumb.
Surely it's still more efficient for the truck to carry that screwdriver and a whole truckload of other goods, in a single journey, with optimised route, rather than me (and every other Amazon shopper) driving my car to the nearest hardware store to buy that screwdriver?
You can walk.
And if they would offer a envoirementfriendly alternative, that nobody uses.
But let me tell you a non secret, they dont give a shit
Amazon is NOT a monopoly. And the problem here is not Amazon, but the products YOU buy. It doesn't matter if you buy from Amazon or Wallmart or whatever.
yes, it is.
No, it's not.
i've presented exactly the same amount of proof that you have.
What proof? Amazon is not a monopoly, that's a fact.