Jordan Hayes:
> Around the time UPS went public, I read that the dot-com delivery
> stuff was driving UPS to becoming broke: they don't make any money
> on $3.95 shipping of a single CD from Amazon, in fact they lose
> money that way.
>
> And if you think about it, all this individually-wrapped-and-delivered
> stuff completely un-does the economies of scale that you get with
> a rich distribution network.
Why isn't it just another industrial problem, to be solved by clever engineering? It seems to require less effort and equipment than having large numbers of people convey their bodies and their vehicles to stores.