How can Chinese companies ship products to the US cheaper than it costs to ship the same items across town?
In: Economics
in the same vein, its crazy to me how an apple that is grown in Chile, then shipped to Thailand to be peeled, cut up, and packaged in plastic, and then shipped to the US to go into a grocery store is cheaper than… an apple grown 30 minutes out of town and brought into a farmer’s market on a saturday.
the whole thing is just a matter of economy of scale– the farmer out of town is selling 500 apples, while the fruit companies are shipping millions of apples. also, the fact that the true environmental costs of international shipping (climate change due to massive emissions) are not actually factored into what you pay, they are just shunted off down the line for future generations to contend with because those costs dont incur on a timeline that anyone currently living cares about
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