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I would like to see how people get their big items home. I assume it has to be delivery. You're not riding the train with a big IKEA chair, much less a couch or a big screen TV or kitchen table.
Not complaining, just actually wonder because that part is not usually shown and others may think they are loosing something by not having a big ass truck to haul stuff to their house on an every day basis for one day of the year.
It's Paris, where car ownership is only about 20% of the population IIRC. Amazingly, people manage to survive without them.
OK yes, so the question is how. How do they get a sofa or some big thing to their house or apartment from the store/shop. Does the shop unload it out on the street and then you hire a couple of big fellows to carry it a few blocks to your house? Do they dolly it to your house? I bet there has to be like an electric dolly thing that they use.
idk about other countries but here in sweden you'd just order it shipped home by the store itself and that includes everything, even installing it in your home.
You'll generally have exceptions for deliveries, or they can just park a bit away and use a pallet jack or whatever to get it to the door. It's really not that big of an issue.
Yeah, that's what I thought. It's even better because people get jobs related to delivering products which should last since one would assume that products must exist and be sold and delivered for us to have a working society. One can't deliver a couch via phone or internet.
plus it means the people driving actually do it as a job, so they're likely to have better training and will suffer more consequences if they drive badly.
I never lived in a pedestrians-only street myself so I don't know. Occasional access for residents may be tolerated. In the case of the photo above it's not clear whether there are resident buldings, but it's amazing what muscles and/or money can do.
Usually a car or delivery (you can rent or borrow a car)
But you can't drive it home. How do you do that last little bit where cars are not allowed? In the Netherlands, I've seen special mini delivery vans and bike vans. But I never really got to see anyone delivering something interesting.
Same way as through your house IG
Better have a modern dolley or it's gonna be a right pain in the ass. Also fuck those small shitty little furniture dolleys.