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It is a whole new kind of thing to sit in your house, look at something you want, place the order, and then have it in your hands in 45 minutes.
by user-the-name 6y ago
It is a whole new kind of thing to sit in your house, look at something you want, place the order, and then have it in your hands in 45 minutes.
- szatkus 6y agoI did my first online grocery order in the middle of pandemic. I needed to wait to 6 days :D
- insickness 6y agoMy parents live in northern New Jersey, about an hour away from NYC. For the first two months of the pandemic, it was impossible to get them food delivery. The wait times were exactly that a week or longer. Now it's fine. But it was so frustrating at it first.
- jeffrallen 6y agoThen hopefully suffer more than 45 minutes of guilt for the externalities of your decision, including the likely fact that your delivery person is not making a living wage. Why not walk to your neighborhood store and buy something from a fellow citizens in your own community? Bonus points if you manage to find a replacement for an import made by a local company.
- user-the-name 6y agoWolt does pay couriers decently, and carbon compensates deliveries. And the order comes from local shops.
- kakoni 6y agoSo do you think in Finland 13-14e hourly charge rate for self-employed entrepreneur is a decent rate?
- Arkku 6y agoWhat is your source for this rate? Based on limited knowledge (e.g., the Finnish YouTuber who tried working as Wolt courier for a couple of days, and the recent articles about the courier who is trying to earn 8000e in January delivering with Wolt), it seems that the rate _when actually making deliveries_ is higher. I might be willing to accept that this quoted figure is the hourly rate when the courier is technically available for deliveries but not getting them all the time. So, the hourly rate would go up if more people made delivery orders, because there would be less downtime… Of course nothing prevents the self-employed couriers from doing other work in the meantime, e.g., delivering for another company or working on some personal project (studying comes to mind as a thing that can be done during downtime). Now, admittedly if they were employees, they would be paid by the hour whether there were orders or not, but then both their salary and the number of couriers on duty would have to be adjusted accordingly, which means the majority of couriers would lose this job… Not a simple matter, IMO, I think there is a gap in legislation when it comes to this type of work.
- kakoni 6y agoFor instance from this story ” Woltin mukaan Woltin kaikkien lähettien keskimääräinen laskutus on nykyään nykyään 13,44 euroa tunnilta.” (Source: https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000006312759.html https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000006312759.html) Most on these ”can earn so many thousands per month” seem to follow same formula 1) Assumes that somebody works >12h per day, 6-7 days per week and 2) Mixes salary and self-employed hourly rate
- flyinglizard 6y agoWolt couriers in Israel make 3-4 times the minimum wage when all is said and done.
- names_are_hard 6y agoI'm not doubting you but if you have a source for this (Hebrew is fine) I'd appreciate it. This topic has come up in conversation before and I'd like some more info on this.
- flyinglizard 6y agoMaybe this: https://www.meshekil.com/ReadNews/hMLbbgJ2C-%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%98%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%A8-%D7%91%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%98 https://www.meshekil.com/ReadNews/hMLbbgJ2C-%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%...
- citrus1330 6y agoI would say any wage is better than no wage at all, which is what delivery people make if there are no deliveries.
- yrimaxi 6y agoChances are that you spend more time than that feeling resentful that the big bad strangers on the internet don’t feel even a pang of shame just because you told them to.
- maccard 6y agoI've got same day delivery on certain items on some sites and while it's a nice novelty, I've found it's unnecessary. I'm quite happy (content even) to wait 2 days, as long as it is actually 2 days, and not 1-5 days depending on the position of the moon. My supermarket offers 4 hour delivery windows that you book about a week in advance, and it's perfect (other than the occasional dodgy swap or missing item). I can work with that. But amazon (for example) offers same/next day delivery, and I'd estimate maybe 10% of my orders are late. That doesn't work if I'm relying on them for food
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