• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    If you buy from Amazon, it’s YOU who are responsoble for all associated emissions like delivery, manufacturing, etc, not Bezos.

    That would only be true if Amazon had real competition and would not be acting like a monopoly, as many other companies do.

    • rchive@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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?

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          1 year ago

          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…

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            1 year ago

            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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year ago

            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?

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      1 year ago

      And if they would offer a envoirementfriendly alternative, that nobody uses.

      But let me tell you a non secret, they dont give a shit

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      1 year ago

      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.