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petra on Oct 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone del...

Drone deliveries may be significantly cheaper to the company.

Consumers already get "free" shipping, so they don't notice that.

But at some point, they'll see lower prices for products.

grepthisab on Oct 19, 2019 [–]

I'm really, really skeptical that if Amazon (or whoever) suddenly finds efficiencies through drone usage then those efficiencies and lower costs for them would translate into lower prices for consumers...

DuskStar on Oct 20, 2019 | [–]

Unless both Amazon AND Walmart/Google/Uber/whoever ALSO find those same efficiencies, and compete...

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