this will keep happening until transport costs make it unprofitable – you do not say though if your company has to pay the transport costs or maybe your line manager is looking at sales per department and not net profit less costs of sales and is not being fed back the actual cost of delivery…
this is a quick way for a company to fuck up, they think they are making money until someone looks at the bigger picture across the entire organisation and not just raw sales figures
British management and financial reporting styles are also skewed in such a fashion as to encourage this stupidity….
unfortunately though as a customer (and a finance manager, which is how I know such things as the above) whilst I try to make purchases usually from the local area (Essex/Suffolk) I have to look for the best price
for instance we used to get office supplies from Colchester but the suppliers were charging a premium on some items (like £5 for five bulldog clips!) so I get them from the Midlands/North now..
that said I ride a bicycle to work and would do so even if I had a car and consume a lot less than most single males in my position (apparently I’m a yuppie/professional lol as the banks and junk mail keep sending me the sort of offers what yuppies got in the 80s..)
