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No, they really are two different questions, the type of things we buy and the way we buy them. If online was inefficient, it wouldn't be so much cheaper than going to the shops. They are linked, insofar as the horrible cheap tat which has the planet destroying potential seems to exist only because of the efficiency of online retail, but we could have a few nice sustainable things delivered to us if we asked nicely. Reducing the volume of product delivered to end users seems to further favour online over physical shops.
If your proposition is that forceably eliminating online would make us go to the shops to buy our smaller rations, you're in danger of going down the path of Ostalgie which caused Margarita Simonyan to wonder aloud
whether nuking Siberia might not be such a bad idea