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Posted by Rick [71.226.237.246] on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 14:01:08 :
In Reply to: Entirely Off-Topic Rant -- Please Delete posted by Arthur P. Bloom on Long Island [24.46.16.43] on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 15:15:08 :
The technical reason is that they are using "as the crow flies" lat/lon lookups to find the closest stores to you they are not using road miles.
This is the reason trucking companies use tools like PCMiler or Rand McNally to calculate distance and specify them in thier rate contracts.
Rick