• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If I own a grocery, it’s going to take a hell of a lot of bike trips to and from the warehouse to restock every day. Or I could employ an army of bikers. Or one truck.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Ok, so deliver food via truck. Choose the appropriate means of transportation for each type of last-mile delivery. The 200 gram Amazon package most certainly does not require a heavy truck to deliver.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website
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        1 year ago

        How about over a thousand 200 gram packages all needing to go to separate places within a 5 mile radius? Are bikes still better for that?

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          1 year ago

          One thousand stops within a five mile radius means that you’re definitely going to make it out ahead with bike delivery. So yes, the bikes would very obviously come out ahead in this scenario.

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      1 year ago

      It seems I missed the point. I had deliveries in mind where the truck is mostly empty most of the time. Restocking with a truck or cargo tram (depending on the environment) would make more sense.