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Council Member Gennaro's personal anecdote about rapid last-mile delivery
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Council Member Gennaro shares a personal anecdote about needing specialized eye drops and how quickly they were delivered, illustrating the efficiency of last-mile delivery services in NYC.
- Gennaro ordered eye drops at 10 PM and was promised delivery between 4 AM and 8 AM the next day
- He uses this example to argue that such rapid delivery likely couldn't be achieved from warehouses outside the city
- The anecdote serves to highlight the importance of having warehouses close to delivery destinations in NYC
Jim Gennaro
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And also you have to be close to where you're gonna be bringing the stuff.
1:46:39
I mean, people have been noticing me.
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I'm I'm going through, like, an eye crisis or whatever, and I have these, like, specialized eye drops or whatever.
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And at, 10:00 last night, I went to my wife, and I'm like, I gotta stop with the drugstore before I go and to share the hearing, because it's, like, I in a bad way, I need them.
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She goes, oh, don't worry about them.
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And she goes like this.
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She says, they'll be on the front steps between 4AM and 8AM.
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This is at 10AM.
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I did this at 10PM last night or whatever.
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So I don't think they I don't think they could pull that off from, like, New Jersey or Yonkers getting me my eye drops in a couple hours.
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And so real world stories.
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You know what I mean?
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This is what we give you here.