I recently bought a monitor from Canada Computers, it was a brand-new box with the manufacturer’s seal intact. The attendant still opened the box and we both inspected the monitor, then he re-closed it using their own tamper-evident tape.
Best Buy will do this as well but in my experience they will only do so with items being sold as “open box”.
Unless you’re using an instant-courier type service (i.e. uber/doordash), goods are usually delivered as part of a regular route by the delivery driver. Your USB pen is only one of hundreds of packages being delivered by that driver, and that driver will be following a fairly consistent route each day. I’d say it’s about as efficient as taking public transit to the store
Tech bubbles they’re re-starting the crypto bubble, there’s the AI bubble, the streaming bubble, ads on ads on ads bubble, cloud-all-the-things bubble, the centuries-old “use illegal foreign labour to keep costs low and profits high” bubble… that one isn’t really tech, but it has kept the American economy inflated for quite a while…
I think the next step is them re-starting sub-prime mortgages
More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they’ll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.
Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.
If that’s the only option and the local provider is the same final price as Amazon, that still would mean more money stays in Canada and less goes to bozo. Not perfect, but better.
Might need to check out the people that were the victims of anti-LGBTQ+ violence in the last decade or so, should be a pretty short list still