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Also, and here I part company with people who do such things, is that I'm 100% opposed to facilitating the grocery delivery sector in any way whatsoever, so if filtering adds to the time their drivers take and reduces their profits, I'm all for it
Isn't it better for one delivery van to visit to multiple households than have each of those households drive to the supermarket individually though?
Edit: would also add potential to reduce parking spaces at supermarket whilst still serving same number of customers
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And it’s more like likely that a megacorp will buy a fleet of electric vehicles and keep them in good repair, than it is for all those families to do the same.
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Also, food storage in a warehouse is much less energy intensive than a supermarket with warm air con next to open fridges and 500 lumen/inch lighting.
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The problem is you get many different supermarkets delivering on many different days and the vans often come from further away (my Sainsbury's order does not get picked at my local Sainsbury's Superstore). A monopoly would be much more efficient along with limited delivery days.
Kind of like couriers. Amazon, DPD, DHL, Hermes, UPS etc will all visit my street on the same day. It would be better if a single organization did all the houses.
People claim the free market is efficient but it is bullshit at many levels.
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Isn't it better for one delivery van to visit to multiple households than have each of those households drive to the supermarket individually though?
Have a look at the distances those vans have to travel. Many come from very few large distribution centres on the edge of London. Even if they came from a more nearby supermarket, they would still be undercutting independent local shops. They don't actually carry that much stuff, either. While large supermarkets, especially out-of-town ones, are already totally unsustainable, delivering shopping individually is even more so.
Also, while I'm sure in some areas most people drive to the supermarket, you'd be surprised how many people, especially in London, walk and cycle there. Driving always makes a lot of noise and wastes a lot of space and attracts all the attention, and as above, if you put a couple of hundred car parking spaces next to a supermarket, it's a sustainability disaster, but that's not the whole story. I don't like 'retail parks', but one of the interesting things about them is that they're generally built entirely for driving there, and people still walk and cycle. They get built as fenced-off estates with one entrance or a couple of entrances for drivers, which are not usually convenient for people from the surrounding area, as they mostly connect to the local major road/dual carriageway network. This means that people make their own entrances. Someone actually cuts the fence where it's more convenient/direct for people to enter on foot or by bike. And these typically don't get repaired, as I assume the management know that if they put a new fence up, it would only get cut again. So they're left and become unofficial and quite busy entrances.
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Edge filtering is generally the default option because traffic engineers consider it easier. They're used to their job being to facilitate movement, mostly of drivers, so they go for edge filtering and loops. However, one of the key aims of filtering is, I'm afraid, to make driving less convenient and more cumbersome, and that includes making people turn around, same way in same way out. One key argument against not doing loops in a cell used to be that the bin lorries and emergency services need to get around, but with the new fashion for camera-enforced permeable filters, that's no longer a concern.
Also, and here I part company with people who do such things, is that I'm 100% opposed to facilitating the grocery delivery sector in any way whatsoever, so if filtering adds to the time their drivers take and reduces their profits, I'm all for it (and I'm well aware of the conditions their drivers work under, and that this might be taken out on them; if they were paid and treated properly, these businesses probably wouldn't exist, so that's another thing to get busy about). Needless to say, I'm also 100% opposed to the trend to order everything else from the Internet, usually from the worst company on the planet. It's utterly unsustainable and should quite simply be legislated against, and the worst company on the planet should be destroyed. While this is not going to happen, here again proper filtering will do a nice job of cutting into profits.