• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    doing a costco/sams club would be hard without car!

    What if all that stuff were on every corner in smaller packages, or delivered on a regular train route right to your front door every couple weeks in the gratuitous quantities you love?

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      3 months ago

      Not sure if you’re proposing more local stores near people around cities, or a retro-futuristic tech bro supermarket delivery train idea (in the past, people will get their groceries via a mini-clay-tablet-thing called Oober Feasts, delivered to their door by a train.) Make it a subscription thing and we talking

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        3 months ago

        If deliveries are regular and rails line every street, delivery stops being a luxury.

        If food is collectivized, the corner store is functionally just a deep-storage pantry. Both seem fun.

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          3 months ago

          So, what’s the idea? Rails on every street, for a delivery train? I mean, getting stuff delivered at home like that seems fun. Though it also seems kinda lazy and removes an excuse to leave the house. And I sometimes enjoy seeing what up in the supermarket (and get some free tasting of food)