A i want to feel sick. Catch up and slices definitely drip free. Genuine trash supposedly from new york city because just because all these products are available doesnt mean that people also buy them right through the day. Where they do it seems sliced catch up whether its stopping for bizarre products ordering dinner or in my case streaming the latest Martin Scorsese film the internet has now penetrated deep into i 3 day lives for many of us it feels like everythings on line and today on made cover the consequences lets start off with one of our most basic needs food gone is the hassle of shopping and cooking today we are only a top away from our next color never experience the market for ordering food online has grown rapidly but competition is fierce and the principle is often eat or be eaten and the curious we deliver our beloved meals know everything about what it feels like at the bottom of the online food chain. In the beautiful world of commercials Delivery Service has promised to make your life easier and more efficient. But what it takes to get there is not so pretty. Today just take a shorter break were talking about equipment. The market is highly competitive but as we say its a winner takes most market and highly lucrative for the winner. Take to a 6 class one of many providers in the nascent beverage delivery sector dust express offer is online ordering little price difference to shops and delivery within 2 hours the company has been expanding across germany since 2017 but one driver reports that the pressure on workers is high hes afraid of getting fired and wants to remain anonymous it would be easy to fire. And the company piles on the pressure if anyone talks about health and safety that results in immediate dismissal of disciplinary warning and then others get scared to open their mouth. A Union Representative says its not an isolated case. Just express the prevailing atmosphere is one of fear and exploitation. Or anyone who talks about electing a works council. Most people are on short term contracts. To us to express turned down an advance interview when confronted with the accusations the company told us that its in a development and expansion phase and therefore irregularities or grievances are to be expected in a statement it said we feel obliged to meet existing regulations and frameworks regarding labor law in addition we seek to communicate on a collaborative level with all our employees. The market for food delivery has been developing longer before rondo took over 3 of its competitors in 2019 and is Market Leader in germany with 65 percent of the British Company just ease is strong throughout europe. In china make one john playing dominates the marcus. Leaders in the us our growth hub and dominoes. While belief around 0 workers paddled through the night we a company leaf around 0. In a taxi to the courier hub in berlin he cofounded li for rondo here in 20095 years later he sold the company to big chunks firm takeaway now the 38 year old is a board member there the next step in the companys plan is to take over a british competitor just. The courier is pick up their bikes at the hub and drop them off again at the end of their shift. Factories get recharged backpacks put away bikes repair it. Unlike Many International competitors delivery workers here have a contract. Every week the Company Hires one. 150 to 200 new couriers. And you are going to the Younger Generation orders meals more often than older people their tradition of cooking at home every day is dying out were seeing a growing trend. But theres been criticism of the fernando too that wages are paid late equipment is inadequate and contracts are short term the fronto kind is that their workers gear is the best there is a temporary contract or late payments are isolated cases. We have to ensure that we continue to grow. The stuff and sometimes we dont get things exactly right the 1st time round for you in the field and i wouldnt say that were perfect were trying to create the best possible conditions for our employees for the. Top working conditions and rapid growth at the same time the balancing act that creates a lot of pressure especially in Young Companies i always keep an eye open for other Job Opportunities just in case i get laid off here more they dont renew my contract. Never in the history of retail has it been easy to. Most of us agree the rate at which we have buying is becoming increasingly unsustainable and whether its instagram as protesting against black friday or the pope referring to consumerism as a disease backlash against by seems well underway but when you look at the annual shopping spree in the Holiday Season the numbers tell a different story. The season to be john and sustainable visitors to this socalled alternative Christmas Market in the district of predict sign are united by one thing. A rejection of what they see as rampant consumerism. And definitely considering the environment where im thinking of so i when im considering to buy just give my friends and family show from 2nd hand shops you know with their clothes. The best way to give them experiences rather so i got my mom massage. Rose back its recycled from trash and homemade just some examples of gifts designed to appeal to the climate Conscious Consumer coupled with black friday boycotts on instagram is anti consumerism now a significant trend. Well not at this Christmas Market at alexanderplatz right in the heart of berlin here the vibe is much more buying buying by. As. It can be i cant imagine christmas without presents at all what kind of christmas would that be by now i can imagine christmas without presents at all. In germany christmas related spending per capita has risen steadily over the past few years. In the United StatesChristmas Spending has almost doubled in the past 20 years. And on a single day in november a chinese shopping giant alibaba sales nearly matched camerons entire economic output in 2018 in that context the anti consumerism movement is just a drop in the ocean. With it. Did you know that the prices you see online could be determined by the kind of device you use it is just one example of whats called personalized pricing using other with methods Online Retailers get you to buy more on x. Piece explores the Carbon Footprint of your Online Shopping habits. Everythings cheaper on the internet right so we load up our shopping carts but the items arent always as much of a bargain this we think. Due to personalized pricing my Online Retailers each of us may see a different price and i phone user gets a high one yes amazon knows what device youre ordering from the costly smartphone signals a wealthy purchase or a desktop user a sign of technological backwardness generally gets offered a lower price Consumer Protection as complain about this. Calling it in a comedy 2. 00 but its hard to come back in the future retailers will know even more about our habits to have more data and theyll be able to analyze it better algorithms will figure out what prices were prepared to pay. Worldwide 64 percent of Internet Users worry about their data being misused in brazil its more than 80 percent and in germany just over half in japan theyre somewhat less concerned. But internet retail just keeps on growing currently by 22 percent a year the germans receive an average of 24. 00 packages from Online Purchases each year in china where people do the most Online Shopping in relation to their income its 70 packing. So should we be worrying about the Environmental Impact of these deliveries and all that packaging one german Environmental Institute says the Carbon Footprint of Traditional Stores is worse because they use so much electricity and heating but what about the Online Fashion industry. German shoppers for instance return every other delivery which is then sent to another customer making 3 routes per item more transport more c o 2 more packaging makes for millions of items of clothing the Online Retail sector is letting its ecological krenz slip through its fingers. Google apple facebook and amazon the big 4 tech giants make them money by harvesting data most of us use their Services Every day without worrying too much about privacy issues but do you really have to put up with that number of tonnage civs have been cropping up. This man refuses to use whatsapp and google because they track his Online Activity even when the apps are closed the internet activist widely known as pad loon sees this as an intolerable invasion of his privacy. But what was in our view is my nightmare scenario is that any last glimmer of hope will die and people will just say there is nothing more we can do in the fight against total surveillance or town. Services that tracking collect data about our online lives are incredibly widespread platforms like facebook say that use this benefit because the tracking enables advertising to be tailored to suit the individual. Customer in link works for wire an alternative to whats up over the years the company has observed and responded to shifting security needs. Whats up russert was already very big and powerful when we launched our end user product in 2014 and we realized pretty soon that security was a much bigger issue on a corporate level than for the end user but in. This so in 2017 we changed our strategy to focus on institutions organizations and businesses so one of organs and thrown them in frequency. Change of topic attractive many new customers like chemicals giant to be a s. F. The company spends 8 year is amongst power in ploy to use the messaging service. The other thing its the most primitive for another of our clients years younger and theyre using one. Science is to build a communication platform with that customers so they can send things like Financial Statements and other Financial Information without using email months or so now its a platform thats not externally accessible by. Public and belongs to a German Association called digital courage the campaigns for Consumer Protection and privacy. After users can think about whether they really need to do so much digitally. We need to consider the data were handing over for the sake of a bit more convenience and maybe its ok to do without some of that convenience so. Email provider sustainability is a principle that applies to figured as well as business employees who get free locally sourced lunch every day who are a week at a loss of recommendations from friends and family and thats the principle we have to visit we dont place adverts anywhere so we really rely on recommendation as. The company has around 350000 customers they could have more with appetising but they dont want to compete with the big players. Its not an option because its not Sustainable Growth like that is very difficult to manage even as a company after 10 years we have about 30 employees of someone thats gross you can handle organically you need to form teams and see how you harmonize it takes time because were pleased with our strong but not explosive we couldnt handle that. Thats been an issue for. Internet activists says developing a european Search Engine would help to be. Privacy and reign in the data collecting mania. The European Union needs to make Funds Available billions in fact to build the Search Engine. And publishes the data should have power over it and europe should take ownership you know. Awareness about sustainable digital consumption and Data Protection is growing many people just dont know what the alternatives are. And parting with money for them is hard when the big names are offering products for free. So there are options out there but what about people who want to buy local but cant resist the convenience of Online Shopping the small town of goons book in southern germany has set up its own online marketplace made up of dozens of local retailers its a response to our changing habits of consumption and the seeming the overwhelming competition from the online world our reporter your went to investigate. Special offers everywhere but not a customer in sight a problem in shopping zones across germany even when its not so cold today its minus 10 degrees celsius in the small bavarian town of guns you have to be pretty desperate to venture outside at all. Hes got hello i need a ski helmet him. Right you follow me ill show you what weve got. Planned to set off on my trip next week. And. Im already thinking a skiing holiday is bound to be expensive. So j. B. I want to check how much the competition is charging. And for what does it cost here. Also cost of its own special offer of 129. 00 euros right now. 129. 19. 106. If you want to check things out on the internet theres never any guarantee that youll get the right sides here youll find just the right size and youll even get advice thrown in for free as well. But if i order it online i can get it delivered and send it back if i want. Thats no problem here either just go to our website youll get the help and if you want to buy for 30 well even deliver it today theyre gone of course. Since 2017 of youre in going to pull duc de web sites local retailers have been offering thousands of articles. Test set up the website is this going spose answer to amazon. Honestly no one stands a chance against amazon the website is really only there to give us an Online Presence and thats a pleasant our customers come from all over germany. Has come from book the other half from around the country. But come that whole the drop in sales caused by sites like amazon in a bookshop which also offer School Supplies like satchels island another shopping trip. I wonder what happens if someone photographs a barcode on yeah then this is the part yes nowadays youve got software which automatically shows the product on the internet if you go through so you get customers who walk into a shop look for something then just take a picture of it if they like it its quite cheeky isnt it very close with. Yeah i think im on the yeah but thats just the way things are thats why Herman Hunter has been online for years where he markets the hundreds of thousands of articles in his store room he says people are going into town less and that has repercussions. On the other hand customers actually going into a shop a better informed than ever before thanks to the internet thats good for retailers people who come into this one shop for specific wines try them and then get them delivered to their homes. I only sell italian wines but i still have 800 different types from every region north to south and the island. Reds whites rose as and bubbly here in relatively small i can offer you a selection youd normally only find in big cities. But thats only possible because i can buy and brick and Mortar Retail with Online Retail. But what does that cost 9. 00 euros 80 many thought and if i want to order it in berlin where i live what would i pay then. Absolutely no problem it be the same price you ordered on d. E. C. And well ship it anywhere in germany for free. Kara duff sickly the otherwise disruptive internet of acim conventional retailers at least a much better chance of survival. So weve established that a big chunk of our entire lives takes place online but it doesnt stop there next report is a reminder that the internet is indeed everywhere in life and in death. As i mean ive never really thought much about cough and. Laugh like lack laughter definitely not for words pinewood individually decorated for former tangle or walnut birch. Totally italian style solid wood which i like. Most of the coffins here cost between 1. 30 euros. Yes thats not critical if i were picking one for my own burial id be asking how much am i worth i think we or if its for one of my loved ones what are they worth to me should i shell out 12 or 3000 euros and cards you know ive not had to ask myself that question so far but its one that everyone probably has to ask at some point. What are we worth when we die. This funeral home has been dealing with death since 861. 00 fabienne lensing who heads the Family Business says the funeral ive picked would cost 3. 00 and a half 1000 euros the price reflects not just the coffin and the flowers ive chosen but also the fact that lensing is available around the clock. As its misconstrued with sometimes when you spend 5 hours with a client and discussing all the details we might work on the text for the death announcement or on the decorations the Funeral Service the music there are lots of details and i think you can only do them justice by discussing them in person. Because anything is put. Undertakers are often criticised for charging too much the bereaved tend not to haggle. But what p. R. Involved has his company can offer funerals 30 percent cheaper with no hidden costs the berlin startup has raised millions from investors the purchasing and planning processes have been digitalized customers can select everything on their computers or via telephone hotline that way they can see how much each item costs and wha