Stocked in advance?
"...the idea is to deliver items within minutes of an order. This suggests a significant quantity of shop stock is prepared in advance for drone deliveries..."
or rather, the pervasive and ever-growing Google ad network combined with their data tentacles reaching deep into the remotest crevices of the Internet, combined with a top-secret AI hidden deep underground (preferably a hollowed-out extinct volcano) will already know what you are going to order before you do, and have the necessary items on hand at the local depot
Biting the hand that feeds IT
