BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Psamathe]

Just applying some logic. Amazon sometimes deliver 10 parcels in one go to my block, then they walk 20m down the road and do it again. Then they walk another 20m etc. At some point, they shift the van 100m down the road. In contrast, in rural Cumbria, it can be 20 mins between each delivery.

By that logic people in apartment blocks subsidise those living in 4 bedroomed properties in suburbia.

 

[First Aspect]

Royal Mail is forced by regulation to make its urban customers subsidise rural customers despite these "swings and roundabouts". I cannot see how Amazon would not have to have a similar system of subsidies, unless it is allowed to offer a worse or more expensive service to rural communities.

Point of order - the delivery service in the countryside is actually worse.

For example, how often do you have to go to a nearby postcode to find a package?

It is also slower.

 

[Rusty Nails]

By that logic people in apartment blocks subsidise those living in 4 bedroomed properties in suburbia.

That's effectively what happens when everyone pays the same price.

 

[First Aspect]

That's effectively what happens when everyone pays the same price.

I live next to a river. I'm subsidising your water supply.

 

[PurplePenguin]

I live next to a river. I'm subsidising your water supply.

Do you drink directly from the river?

 

[First Aspect]

Do you drink directly from the river?

No but it doesn't come through many pipes between us and the treatment plant. Not like the miles of leaks I am paying for to supply your house.

 

[PurplePenguin]

No but it doesn't come through many pipes between us and the treatment plant. Not like the miles of leaks I am paying for to supply your house.

You pay Thames Water?

 

[First Aspect]

Do you drink directly from the river?

Where is your nearest power station, PP? Think of all the infrastructure needed to get electricity from where it is generated. For years I lived in wind farm central but I still paid the same price as you.

 

[First Aspect]

You pay Thames Water?

Are you Stevo in disguise?

 

[PurplePenguin]

I bet I live closer to a warehouse than you do. And to a port.

Amazon Tilbury which is the largest in the UK and next to a port is 25 miles from London. From your description, it sounds like a similar distance to your local bike shop.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Where is your nearest power station, PP? Think of all the infrastructure needed to get electricity from where it is generated. For years I lived in wind farm central but I still paid the same price as you.

I'm sure if you keep digging, you'll find a suitable example.

 

[Pross]

I have always had this idea that all these tech bros are so consumed by an artificial world because they are actually joyless people who struggle to engage with real life and are unable to understand the value of actual human interactions and experiences. It seems they actually need technology to live their lives for them as they are unable to cope with it themselves.

Yet I’m all that but not a billionaire

 

[Rusty Nails]

I live next to a river. I'm subsidising your water supply.

I live next to a stream, which feeds into a river so without people like me your river is nothing.

Plus it's very rainy where I live so that subsidises those living in the sunbathed areas of the UK

 

[First Aspect]

I'm sure if you keep digging, you'll find a suitable example.

Food, water and electricity seem reasonably good examples to me.

 

[Pross]

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This seems like a perfect illustration of 'unicorn brain': like the pubs issue, the world has changed, and High Streets as we knew them are largely redundant. People have got used to drinking at home, as social connections are less dependent on all being in the same room together; and people have got used to buying stuff online. But they *demand* that politicians keep pubs open and High Streets thronged with people, simply because they can't let go of the memories of 50 years ago. It's absolutely nuts. But we know that no politician will dare tell the truth that that world ain't coming back, and seismic change is inevitable.

I see it all the time on local FB groups. All the shops we need to rejuvenate the town (M&S is usually top of the list we I guess shows the demographic) yet we had most of these stores in the last 10-15 years. If enough people had been using them and they’d be making money I’m sure they’d have 10 stores there. Strangely none of these people are looking to invest in opening shops to provide for this apparent hole in the market. Meanwhile they’ll bemoan all the coffee shops which are one of the things keeping any kind of life in the High Street (and Greggs which, like it or not, has managed to massively buck the trend in retail decline in the past decade).