How our home delivery habit reshaped the world

The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes. By Samanth SubramanianA decade ago, the British department-store chain John Lewis built itself a long warehouse, painted in gradations of sky blue. The shed, as it is called in the industry, cost £100m and covered 650,000 sq ft. Windsor Castle could easily fit inside it. John Lewis named the shed Magna Park 1, after the site where it stands: a “logistics campus&rdq