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Delivery jobs will expand - 1 van delivering 20 parcels will leave a smaller 'carbon footprint' than 20 people visiting a store. More jobs will be created for staff at parcel depots and will be occupied more productively than shop assistants hanging about waiting fo a customer to walk through the shop door
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Buying online I assume you mean from tesco online etc.
Your telling me that transporting food/goods around the country/world is less carbon polluting than going to your local market where produce is from the local area and has travelled the least distance?
I highly doubt that there will be a positive impact in terms of employment. Lets say 1 person can deliver 20 peoples shopping in under an hour. How many people would be served by how many people on tills in that hour? Parcel depots will just become more reliant on technology leaving less and less room for workforce if they have such a huge influx of profit from high growth.