How Our Home Delivery Habit Reshaped The World • Discoverology

How Our Home Delivery Habit Reshaped The World

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The great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully.

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