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I'm truly baffled about how these services seem fairly popular in Berlin. I literally live across the street from one supermarket, and within a 5 minute walk f

by TillE 5y ago

I'm truly baffled about how these services seem fairly popular in Berlin. I literally live across the street from one supermarket, and within a 5 minute walk from 3-4 others. Yet one of these grocery delivery services has a warehouse right down my street. If you have a disability or you're quarantining it seems fantastic, but otherwise...just go to the grocery store??

agp152 5y ago
I don’t like waiting in line. Also, German grocery stores are not as nice as in the US or NL. Basic food, long lines, very rude staff.
- kwhitefoot 5y ago
  > German grocery stores are not as nice as in the US I've used both and German stores seem to me to be ok. US stores are also ok although the quality of fresh produce seems to be less good and generally the fresh baked goods are much worse.
shrimp_emoji 5y ago
I'm in your exact situation, but... going to the store. Putting stuff in a cart. Waiting in line, like sibling said. Unloading it from the cart. Reloading it in the cart. Carrying it home. I just described several steps that are a complete monotonous waste of my time and that I consider unpleasant and that someone else is willing to do for me if I give them a sum of money I can afford not to care about. That's amazing, imo. (At least for me; I don't know how amazing it is for them, even if I tip highly.) It is kind of funny, but, hey, humans are kind of funny. I'd rather not even walk outside for a minute to throw my trash into the bins; if I could leave it outside my door and have a person/robot pick it up, that'd be sweet. :p You can take this to an extreme, where you eliminate every unpleasant task via some magical means, and that world sounds like paradise. Cue dystopic collapse of some kind.
- itronitron 5y ago
  >> Cue dystopic collapse of some kind You mean like living out your days in a life-sustaining pod that automatically flushes your waste products away while your body provides electricity to the grid?
bombcar 5y ago
I live minutes away from a Walmart and I've still ordered stuff for delivery a few days later, as it's a minimum 20-30 minutes to get something. Even the grocery store across the street is a 15m trip. I could see people not wanting to spend the time. (However, most grocery items are a pain in the arse to find online and order, so it's often shorter time wise for me to go to the store.)
mrep 5y ago
Are they evenly distributed? I'm in lake view chicago and there are 5 in a 15 minute walk they just happen to be like all 15 minutes as I'm like right in the middle of all them. There are clusters though where you could go to any of 5 different grocery stores within a 5 minute walk.

by TillE 5y ago

agp152 5y ago

I don’t like waiting in line. Also, German grocery stores are not as nice as in the US or NL. Basic food, long lines, very rude staff.

kwhitefoot 5y ago
> German grocery stores are not as nice as in the US I've used both and German stores seem to me to be ok. US stores are also ok although the quality of fresh produce seems to be less good and generally the fresh baked goods are much worse.

shrimp_emoji 5y ago

I'm in your exact situation, but... going to the store. Putting stuff in a cart. Waiting in line, like sibling said. Unloading it from the cart. Reloading it in the cart. Carrying it home. I just described several steps that are a complete monotonous waste of my time and that I consider unpleasant and that someone else is willing to do for me if I give them a sum of money I can afford not to care about. That's amazing, imo. (At least for me; I don't know how amazing it is for them, even if I tip highly.) It is kind of funny, but, hey, humans are kind of funny. I'd rather not even walk outside for a minute to throw my trash into the bins; if I could leave it outside my door and have a person/robot pick it up, that'd be sweet. :p You can take this to an extreme, where you eliminate every unpleasant task via some magical means, and that world sounds like paradise. Cue dystopic collapse of some kind.

itronitron 5y ago
>> Cue dystopic collapse of some kind You mean like living out your days in a life-sustaining pod that automatically flushes your waste products away while your body provides electricity to the grid?

bombcar 5y ago

I live minutes away from a Walmart and I've still ordered stuff for delivery a few days later, as it's a minimum 20-30 minutes to get something. Even the grocery store across the street is a 15m trip. I could see people not wanting to spend the time. (However, most grocery items are a pain in the arse to find online and order, so it's often shorter time wise for me to go to the store.)

mrep 5y ago

Are they evenly distributed? I'm in lake view chicago and there are 5 in a 15 minute walk they just happen to be like all 15 minutes as I'm like right in the middle of all them. There are clusters though where you could go to any of 5 different grocery stores within a 5 minute walk.