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Home delivery: from the source, or a third-party provider?

posted a year ago by R_Kane (15828)
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Home delivery is more a fact of life now than ever before, largely due to the pandemic. Instacart, DoorDash, GrubHub etc.—not to mention Amazon and their drones—can now bring us almost anything with no effort nor human contact. There are some caveats here. The drugstore cannot deliver controlled substances to you. Drizlzly and DoorDash will need to see your bone fides before you get your booze, but still . . . So you can sit on your ass at home, stoked to the gills, and order shit that will get you thrown in the slam if the cops caught you driving on the road with it in your condition. Do you prefer to order straight from the store, or from a third party like DoorDash? Or do you even care?

I will ALWAYS order delivery through the store, if the store offers it, which most still do. The store cares about your repeat business. DoorDash does not know you from a puddle of piss, and they treat their drivers like slaves. The third-party drivers will bitch to your face about the tip you gave, and even try to take the delivery back, because their parent company has lied to them about how much they will make in tips, and, also, because so many of their drivers are, frankly, stupid and cannot foresee consequences, such as doing a 200-pound delivery or taking a job that requires driving 150 miles round-trip.

I have no patience at all with deliveries that just leave my stuff at my building’s entrance and do not wait to put the delivery right in my hands. That’s not a delivery. That’s a drop-off.

[–] Bloodshot77 (10670) a year ago

I did Doordash for like 2 months and I hated people in apartment buildings so this one is for you🖕

Signed, million man.

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) a year ago

I don't use any of the services you listed. I can count on one hand the number of times I've used Amazon, and it was only as a last resort.

Meal delivery businesses provide a great service for a person who is elderly, injured or disabled, or who lives in what is called a "food desert." But I would be willing to bet that 95% of the clientele are young, able-bodied individuals who are either too lazy to cook or who don't want to go out in inclement weather. They expect instant gratification without exerting any effort. They let someone else risk their life driving in an ice storm to deliver their meals while they lie on the couch complaining about the food being late.

This is just more of the dumbing-down and increased indolence infecting our society. This will be our downfall.