[sevensor]

Back in 2005 or so, I had a friend who was working at Amazon. When he told me he was ordering things like toothpaste, I could hardly believe it. His apartment was in easy walking distance of a drugstore, and I thought him ordering toothpaste from an online bookseller instead was insane. Little did I know he was living in the future.

[Funes-]

Yes, in a horrid future we find ourselves in right now. And it's just getting started.

[mfatica]

what's horrid about it exactly?

[craftyguy]

The additional resources to send your toothpaste many miles by plane, truck, etc in additional packaging because you don't want to travel to the local grocery store to buy it.

[Veen]

The toothpaste still has to travel from A to B, and it's probably more efficient for a single truck to deliver 200 items than for 200 people to get in their cars and go to the supermarket.

[choward]

I'm pretty sure nobody goes to the store just to get toothpaste.