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Even with a mask you're putting yourself at some risk. This is the safest option for anyone who can afford it.
by _bxg1 6y ago
Even with a mask you're putting yourself at some risk. This is the safest option for anyone who can afford it.
- givehimagun 6y agoSome of my friends who use the delivery service are immune-compromised. Feels like a win/win for them even if it costs more.
- skellera 6y agoI’ve been thinking about prices that make this worth it. Amazon Fresh is free delivery over a certain amount with Prime. I’m sure I’m paying a bit more per item but it can’t be more than the time I’m saving by not browsing and avoiding impulse buys. It seems like a win-win for me. Does anyone have a counter to that?
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoSome people enjoy grocery shopping. Some consider it low-key exercise (for office workers that do not engage in any actual sports, it's often the 2nd most strenuous regular activity, just after sex). It's also furthering the trend towards isolation, the segregation into precarious low-wage service jobs vs a feudal class mostly busy with co-ordinating this personal army of theirs. The latter can afford this because they have institutionalised power structures that have kept lower incomes flat for half a century while the tax structure was turned on its head, with the highest incomes now paying lower rates than day labourers. One would assume that high-paying jobs somehow correlate with value generation. But when shit hit the fan, they were the first to be sent home for half a year and economists are still trying to find anyone who actually noticed that regional key-account managers were mostly just busy with creating funny zoom backgrounds. Online sales obviously kill brick-and-mortar retail, which leads to whatever the opposite of a liveable city is. Large companies tend to run more efficiently. Or, more accurately, they are wasteful in ways that do not have the side benefits of, say, a single-proprietor sponsoring some small-town event because that's "how it's done", or continuing to employ someone even when it's a bad business decision, because they have worked with them for a decade and feel a sense of responsibility. They also heavily favour concentration of market share with just one or very few companies, who are more powerful in relation to customers, employees, and the state. While gains in efficiencies have so far dominated, the beneficiaries of this shift in power will at some point try to cash it in. Other than that, it's pretty cool.
- perl4ever 6y ago>But when shit hit the fan, they were the first to be sent home for half a year and economists are still trying to find anyone who actually noticed that regional key-account managers were mostly just busy with creating funny zoom backgrounds. I don't get it. You think people were useless because when they went home, it didn't affect the economy. But you're talking about people who were and are theoretically working from home. So you seem to be begging the question. Am I missing something?
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- massysett 6y agoAmazon Fresh staff don’t take care of the merchandise. They deliver it in taped-up paper bags or plastic sacks that were in a huge pile, and within the sack they might have apples sitting on a bag of chips or loaf of bread. Also their produce choices were limited. Instacart shoppers take much more care but they are very expensive and their lack of knowledge of in-store inventory means they make poor substitutions, requiring me to baby-sit the order while they pick it to veto substitutions. I have returned to in-store shopping.
- thewebcount 6y agoThis is my spouse also. I can't go, lest I pick up something and pass it to them. So we order everything online now. When it arrives, we let it sit for a bit, then bring it in and wipe it down with disinfectant. It's a pain, but we can afford to do it, and it's very convenient. It does suck not being able to just run out and pick up that one thing you forgot, though.
- _bxg1 6y agoWe're not compromised but we do it anyway to be safe. We leave non-refrigerated items in the garage for three days and wipe down everything else. We're making up the delivery fee and tip by not eating out or going to the movies, and we see it as a small way to put some money into the hands of the essential workers keeping society afloat right now.
- blackrock 6y agoThe insane thing, is that I went into a Ralph’s supermarket the other week, and I counted a handful of people, that took off their face mask, to talk on their cell phones, while they freely walked throughout the store. They just let the mask dangle off their ear. It’s like they’re not even trying. Or they are being completely oblivious to the dangers that they are the ones spreading this virus. And since the spread has continued to rise, I’m wondering if the source of the spread is indeed inside of supermarkets. You have a relatively contained environment, where the air conditioning system can pick up the virus molecules in the air, and spread it around.
- cameronbrown 6y agoI suspect I know why you're being downvoted... WHO say there is no evidence that asymptomatic carriers can spread the virus, and if you have the disease, people should stay indoors. Therefore the mask is redundant. But wait, the CDC recommend (and where I live TfL have it mandatory) wearing a face mask, otherwise you're "killing grandma". I've even seen plenty of articles suggesting that wearing the mask is making things worse, or that lockdowns are making things worse, etc.. The information overload is getting extreme. So which is it? I wouldn't be surprised if mixed messaging is the reason why people have given up caring. Example: "Young people aren't affected.. wait, yes they are, wait.. umm wait no they're not" Our global institutions having fundamental disagreements is so dangerous. I spend hours every day reading into this stuff and I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do, so how is the Average Joe who just wants to get along with life supposed to know what the correct course of action is?
- willcipriano 6y agoYou know when you were a kid and thought that all the adults had life figured out, then you grew up and discovered that they were just winging it? The older I get I realize the same is true for thought leaders and experts. Nobody will pay you to sit around and tell them that collectively as human beings we don't really have the answer, so what we get is a best guess disguised in a veil of certainty.
- gruez 6y ago
- ISL 6y agoCurbside pickup or grocer-organized delivery isn't just the safest option for you, it is also worlds safer for the community at large. The risk to people working in grocery stores increases linearly (or faster) with the number of in-person grocery-store visits. The risk to the community is probably roughly quadratic in the number of in-person grocery-store visits. Curbside pickup is a really responsible thing to do.
- perl4ever 6y agoIt seems equally plausible to me to shame people for using a service when there's limited capacity and some people need it more. When I originally checked, there were a limited number of slots available at my local stores and they seemed to be all filled all the time. At one time at least, they were even queueing people up to shop on a website. So telling me it is or isn't something I should do is irrelevant; I would need to think it was something I could do.