On: FTC Approves of Amazon and Whole Foods Deal

[keenerd]

> I'm intrigued by the future we will be living in where everything will be delivered to us.

Future? Welcome to the 1800's. Every little shop in town had delivery boys. The lady of the house could walk to a dozen shops, inspect wares and purchase everything for the week. Didn't have to carry anything back herself though - a fleet of delivery boys would distribute the day's purchases.

(I'm not saying it is a bad future.)

[germainelol → keenerd]

This wasn't exactly by choice though, not everyone had the means to independently go to the supermarket and buy their groceries

[romwell → germainelol]

Everyone had the means to purchase the groceries also had the means to go to the store. Carrying the groceries home was not an absolute necessity.

[wavefunction → romwell]

There were definitely social stigmas and various social stratifications that prevented people with the means to pay from engaging in 'normal commerce.'

I remarked to my younger Indian colleague that we're replacing tiffin-wallahs with grubhub for work and I'm not sure that's a positive development for the West and its various peoples.