[latency-guy2]

> costs a dollar or so to deliver landed to a store costs me $8 to buy.

Delivery optimization, logistics, and last mile operations are an unfathomably difficult problem(s) to solve, so much so that the entire world participates and there are still enormous gaps in efficiency, many that likely will never be solved due to physics.

I know you're plain wrong about it costing "a dollar" to deliver. Even if it did, you do not pay for just the operational cost, you pay for the convenience, expertise, reliability, or many other factors that comes with procuring a contract/agreement.

[cudgy]

People have been delivering goods to stores for hundreds of years. How much expertise and convenience is required?

[latency-guy2]

I don't really have the patience for ignorance being masqueraded as expertise.

If you have something to prove, then you're welcome to show the world how its done. Doubt me all you want, but you can't doubt the rest of the world.

[creer]

For a while, that was the entire strength of Walmart (efficient distribution) and they did amazingly well with just that. For many years now, even they have not been able to achieve that. It's not so easy.