Ok first of all that sounds like a literal vertical monopoly.

That is not what a vertical monopoly is at all, lol. Thats just a normal warehouse.

Vertical monopoly would be if they also owned all the companies that manufactured the parts they use to make their product, and the companies that collected the raw materials to make those parts, and they owned the land those raw materials were gathered from, and they owned companies that had a stake in the consumption of those end products.

IE if a company owned:

1. The land trees were harvested from
2. The company that harvested those trees
3. The mills that processed the trees into pulp
4. The manufacturing warehouse that turned the pulp into paper
5. The manufacturing that bound that paper into books
6. The press companies that produced the books
7. Had contracts with the writers that wrote the books
8. The distribution companies that distributed the books
9. The companies that sold the books themselves
10. And finally they owned companies that had vested interest in recommending people buy the books (teachers or whatever), or perhaps they owned companies that used those books (like perhaps they own a bunch of privately owned libraries or whatever)

Then that would be a vertical monopoly.

What I am talking about is just a “mom and pop” warehouse that purely owns one of step 4, 5, or 6.

There’s a difference between centralizing where your books are delivered from (a warehouse) and literally owning the company that delivers the books and owning the company the books are delivered to (THAT is a vertical monopoly)

Not all businesses can or should be doing that. Chemicals are still toxic and dangerous, even 3d printing is potentially/literally toxic and even wood shops know to have ventilation systems just for wood dust.

Yeah… thats not an issue mate. Warehouses are big, it is 100% the norm to have both office space and the actual production in the same building, as they are usually an entire city block apart in terms of distance, sometimes more.

Its also quite common for the office space to be disconnected, still on the same property but just a second building that perhaps is connected by a walkway or pedway or whatever, or a hallway, etc etc. Typically the office space, the warehouse, and the manufacturing are very far apart.

Anyone who has ever worked at these types of facilities would know this.

Also I literally said people walking to their corner store which is wayyy better than a fleet of delivery vehicles driving out to each individual house the logistics of that which are insane considering just how often they would have to do runs to cover all times of the day when people might want or need items.

It is indeed a very complex logistical problem.

The nice thing is pretty much every developed nation in the world solved it countless years ago via something we all know called Mail. Literally everyone uses it everywhere, and many of the big nations even have several mail options to choose from between their nationalized public service mail or competing privatized mail companies.

Not exactly an issue in 2023 to mail something to someone.

Trapped home alone with interactions only with delivery drivers.

Do…

Do you…

Do you only socialize and go outside explicitly just to buy stuff? Do you literally never step outside and go interact with people unless you have to go and buy a thing?

Do you need help? Are you doing okay? You’re exhibiting some chronically online symptoms mate, I’m gonna prescribe a healthy dose of “go touch some grass”