World-wide retail shops collapse; Reports.

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Samples;

More high-street shops are closing: let’s all blame Amazon

https://www.ecnmy.org/engage/high-st...-blame-amazon/


The retailers disappearing from UK high streets in 2018

https://www.retail-insight-network.c...reet-closures/


With holiday shopping season over, Canadian retailers closing stores

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/with...ores-1.4239224

Why Aussie retailers are being forced to shut their doors at an alarming rate

https://finance.nine.com.au/2018/08/...-alarming-rate

As US, UK 'retail apocalypse' deepens, EU chains grow nervous

https://www.dw.com/en/as-us-uk-retai...ous/a-44271346

Which is the most environmentally-friendly- ten people driving to the shop or one van delivering to ten people ?
Not such a simple question, is it.

Would governments shut down online retailing to protect the shopping centres ? Tax it ?

Mindless trolls welcome to crap here. Well, most of them.

[moon]

First they came for the 'terrorists' - and I did not speak out
Because I was not a terrorist.

Then they came for the ' social media '- and I did not speak out
Because I was not a social media user.

Then they came for the online traders - and I did not speak out
Because I was not an online trader.

Then they took over the 'net entirely- and we were all fucked.

[tinfoil]

Samples;




Which is the most environmentally-friendly- ten people driving to the shop or one van delivering to ten people ?
Not such a simple question, is it.

How is it not an easy question? Total up the miles the customers would drive and see if the you can create a delivery route to all the points that is fewer miles. What's hard about that task?

[moon]

It isn't difficult to complicate the question- but you're right. Each of ten recipients is spared a two-way journey and one van performs one loop.

So the collapse of the shopping centres is good for the environment ?

[tinfoil]

There's a well known algorithm to solve this problem. The traveling salesman problem. I have an example in javascript if you want to see how it works

[tinfoil]

It isn't difficult to complicate the question- but you're right. Each of ten recipients is spared a two-way journey and one van performs one loop.

So the collapse of the shopping centres is good for the environment ?

Indeed, the math would tell us this, but is the math the only metric we'll use in our decision?

[tinfoil]

It's really hard to think of a good argument that it's not more efficient and beneficial. Many wasted resources are eliminated by using an online retail model. My opinion would be it is better

[moon]

Indeed, the math would tell us this, but is the math the only metric we'll use in our decision?

It will be very useful should governments announce Internet taxes to prop up environmentally-damaging shopping centres.

[moon]

Here they come;

Internet crackdown raises fears for free speech in Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ons-of-britons

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MEPs back fines for web firms that fail to remove terrorist content

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rorist-content

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Online pornography age checks to be mandatory in UK from 15 July

Sites that fail to verify users are over 18 face being blocked under controversial laws

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...k-from-15-july

First they came for the pornographers..........

[moon]

UK to introduce porn age-checks in July

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47960775

maggot's going to have to fake his age. Haw, haw........haw.

[moon]

Facebook bans UK far right groups and leaders

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47974579

.....then they came for the extremists- and I did not speak out
...

[moon]

Shopping centre firm Intu warns of big drop in rental income

Company did not factor in store closures by Debenhams and Arcadia in previous forecasts

The shopping centre landlord Intu has warned of a bigger drop in rental income this year as struggling retailers shut shops at a faster rate than expected.

The Trafford Centre owner said Brexit uncertainties were also having an impact on letting demand and that it would suffer from a further rise in company voluntary arrangements (CVA) – an insolvency process used by struggling firms to shut underperforming stores and cut rents.

Its shares dropped 8% to 92p. Two years ago they were changing hands at 279p, now they are worth less than 10% of their pre-financial crash peak.



https://www.theguardian.com/business...enhams-arcadia

‘Digital gulag’: Jeers and cheers after Facebook purge of Alex Jones, Infowars, Farrakhan & others

Bans of several anti-establishment figures on Facebook and Instagram has conservatives and moderates crying censorship and calling the measure “Orwellian" and a “digital gulag,” while left-wing activists demanded more, and faster.
Facebook announced on Thursday it was banning the accounts of InfoWars, Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan, calling them “extremists” and “dangerous.” The ban applies to Facebook and Instagram, also owned by the Menlo Park-based company.


https://www.rt.com/usa/458258-reacti...stagram-purge/

Expect more.

[MAGA MAN]

It isn't difficult to complicate the question- but you're right. Each of ten recipients is spared a two-way journey and one van performs one loop.

So the collapse of the shopping centres is good for the environment ?

It's good for my sanity. Before online shopping I routinely had to visit several stores to get what I needed, and then it would only be "close" to what I needed.