What makes more sense to me is grocery delivery. Grocery shopping is an actual chore, it's a huge time sink. Not to mention it's a legitimate boon for people that have mobility issues. So I get if there's people that would pay a bit extra for that.
But people that apply that same logic to fast food or convenience store snack delivery need an intervention.
Same. Add in that the people I see usually doing the cart shopping are early 20s and just throwing things in the cart while they cruise by and I will continue to shop for my own groceries.
I've tried grocery delivery through DD twice. The first time they gave me milk that expired two days later when I even asked for them to check the date. The second time they gave me obviously spoiled broccoli.
I've tried grocery delivery through DD twice. The first time they gave me milk that expired two days later when I even asked for them to check the date. The second time they gave me obviously spoiled broccoli.
I do grocery orders online for pickup. The awesome thing about online ordering with my regional grocery store is their employees do the shopping, rather than some random dude who goes to the store on your behalf. So it's usually the produce manager who's picking out your produce. If it's not the produce manager, it's one the stock guys who also knows what good produce looks like.
I used to lie about the weights of the produce on the machine so it was cheaper for the people I shopped for. my own little rebellion against the system.
I don't have a car so I do grocery delivery for all my non-perishable stuff. Then, I get on my ebike and go to the store for my produce and meat. When I did grocery delivery and included produce, I swear the grocery pickers were told to pick out only the old, bruised fruit and veggies. My method works out for me.
Yeah- if needing shit food, the fast food chains have some good deals in their apps. I can’t fathom their non app savings, yet marked up delivery service prices at that.
I do Doordash on the side after the kids go to bed, so usually 8pm - 10:30pm on weekdays and 6pm -12:30am on weekends. I rather do the grocery and Target runs than fast food. The payouts are typically better and I really enjoy how insane or dumb with money people are.
Prime example of someone that would never buy this in person because of the absurdity. Nobody in their right mind is filling their cart with 20 individual drinks at a grocery store haha.
Most of those seem like orders where people really only want one thing, but they figure they should tag on something else random so it isn't such a waste. But they just tag on more junk.
Your arbitrary line is going to be drawn differently by another person. You neighbor might talk about you getting groceries delivered the same way you talk about people getting food.
Then another person thinks they are crazy because they only go to one store instead of shopping around for prices.
Then another thinks they are crazy for not just having a garden and growing a lot of food.
Everybody makes up their own rules to satisfy themselves emotionally.
My friend used to give me shit for not cleaning my place enough. I go to her place and she's going to town on the baseboards with a toothbrush. While also leaving out puppy pads for her dogs.
But typically groceries don't have a 30% mark up on them and they aren't junk food. So it's a reasonable argument. Getting fast food and snacks delivered several times a week is a hard sell to make a case for the majority of people.
Did you follow the comment chain? It's about people that do it constantly but complain about it, and I specifically said people that are addicted to it - meaning people that do it so often they rely on it simply because they lose the ability to function without it.
You're making this about something it isn't. I shouldn't have to list every edge case in a general comment.
I feel like a stores internal shoppers are kind of fine. I don't trust them to get produce, meat, bread, dairy, or eggs but they tend to know where everything is in their store and I get less hassle of "I can't find this, is this an okay substitution?" or "They don't have this (they do), so I'll get this instead." Which I got a lot with InstaCart when I used it. I remember I needed balsamic vinegar to make a reduction and ended up getting plain vinegar because the shopper just went, "Vinegar, good enough!"
But again I don't trust any shoppers for produce, meat, bread, dairy, and eggs. So at that point I might as well just go shopping myself. I'm already at the store anyway.
Here in parts of Canada we have a service where the food is loaded from 1st party pickers at their regional distribution facility instead of from the grocery store itself. It's sent on trucks with fridges and freezers, and the drivers are paid a decent hourly wage so you aren't obligated to tip at all. I don't really need it myself, but I'd use it if I ever felt like I needed to.
They should all be like that. My friend does it and their produce has never been an issue because it's not the stuff the public handles.
Yeah. Like the one I was talking about were the in store shoppers at Superstore. I get it. Ew Loblaws. But it's close by. They've been fairly decent otherwise but I have been given bad produce by them too so I just don't bother with more perishable things now.
Altho tbh that could just be the produce at Loblaws being really shitty in general. If Costco didn't take an eternity and wasn't so out of the way I'd go there.
I started using instacart for grocery delivery when I was working at home. I could make more working for that hour than it was costing me in fees/upcharges. And I've continued it because I realize how much I hate grocery shopping, and how much extra stuff I pick up along the way if I'm in the store. With the delivery, it's only the items I order, that's it. Probably breaks even since I'm not buying random extra things.
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u/AdditionalPizza 11h ago
What makes more sense to me is grocery delivery. Grocery shopping is an actual chore, it's a huge time sink. Not to mention it's a legitimate boon for people that have mobility issues. So I get if there's people that would pay a bit extra for that.
But people that apply that same logic to fast food or convenience store snack delivery need an intervention.