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I never really thought about it, but could online shopping + delivery actually be much more environmentally friendly? i.e rather than having everyone drive do to their own shopping.

This is with the assumption that a single delivery truck can hit multiple customers on their route, and in the context of more rural\suburban areas.

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I think the problem with that is how many cold foods won't do well outside of the freezer for more than 30 minutes, so any combined delivery would have to be purely opportunistic (eg. The delivery destinations being within a few miles of each other, and ordered/scheduled close enough together as to still meet delivery windows) and/or filtered so that people with cold items get their items first.

...or they could use freezer boxes in the delivery truck, like I get in Singapore?

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