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Originally Posted by Carth

To be blunt, it was always on the cards due to the huge rise in online shopping and major distribution outlets like Amazon.

This current situation has simply sped up the process, technological and engineering advancements have always had an impact on the way we do things.

Give it another 20 years and everyone might be getting all their nutritional and medicinal requirements from tubes of 'gloop' . . . and wearing clothes made from a new material containing microbes that absorb CO2 and turn it into Carbon & Oxygen

Exactly as this was just the final straw that broke the camels back.