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> What should happen is grocery stores should be closed except for employees and your groceries should be delivered to you, or you pick them up curb side. Of c
by dewey 7y ago
> What should happen is grocery stores should be closed except for employees and your groceries should be delivered to you, or you pick them up curb side.
Of course that would be ideal, but scaling up a delivery service from scratch is a bit harder than keeping a store running and offering both services which distributes the load a bit.
- djrogers 7y agothis is not a delivery service - it's curbside pickup.
- dewey 7y agoSorry. Looks like I misunderstood that, I thought it means that they put it in front of your house.
- kelnos 7y agoIt still takes extra staff to make this happen. Normal grocery staff isn't just wandering around the store aimlessly; they're restocking and doing other administrative tasks. Most of those tasks don't just go away when you move to a curbside pickup model. You still need to hire and train more people to fulfill orders.
- perl4ever 7y ago"they're restocking and doing other administrative tasks. Most of those tasks don't just go away when you move to a curbside pickup model" This may be true in practice, right now, but do things really have to go to the shelves and then the curb?
- kelnos 7y agoThey have to go somewhere. Perhaps if a store went to a curbside-only model they'd organize things in the store based on popularity so the people fulfilling orders could be more efficient, but it still takes people working throughout the day to make that happen.
- mjwhansen 7y agoMany of the stores offering curbside, like Wegmans, are using Instacart shoppers, so it's not taking away store employees per se.