GSW "in the process of evaluating acquisition targets", page-49

To clarify your question, AZ has both "in store" (stock top ups) and reactive deliveries AZ makes using its own fleet to mechanics/ work shops across the country. The customer workshop deliveries are where GSW will really help. Say a car goes to the mechanic in the morning, needs new break discs and pads (for example). The Workshop Manager orders online from AZ and needs the part in store to be delivered in a couple of hours so they can fit the breaks and have the car ready that night... This is where GSW will benefit AZ, driver and customer with faster deliveries.

You say you don't understand HOW GSW helps - but GSW reduces 10 mins off the delivery times of fried chicken from Red Rooster to its customers... And thats a point-to-point food delivery service of 300 shops. Not 6000 shops with tens of thousands of product SKU codes across multiple geographies delivering from huge DC's.

Galvestone has 50k people, but America is a market of over 300 million, all of whom own cars as public transport is non-existent. Trucking is only main source of logistics and movement of freight in regional America.

I work for a 3PL. For me, the real benefit of GSW is not to the driver, its to the Supply Chain Manager and DC in terms of demand planning which impacts stock turnover rates, warehousing size, Inventory Management. These in turn affect the whole of business operations - purchasing, demand planning, supply planning etc. The largest issue with a dynamic supply chain is that there is a lack of control and oversight of who the end user will be and where the stock will be needed next.