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Every single shopping system I've used you don't even know who you're picker is because who cares. You go on the website like normal, pick the stuff you want, and pay for it.

Presumably some store clerk goes and get the items and put some in the bag and then some one from uber door dash picks it up and delivers it to you.

If you have to remote control them I'm not sure how that's helpful

Covid made it a huge thing, now it’s more convenient than necessary. Or sometimes you’re not sober 🤷

a friend of mine thoroughly appreciates that he can order groceries for pickup and save the time wandering the store finding things and checking out. I understand that

I live in a place that had almost zero public transportation 8 years ago. 8 years ago I developed epilepsy and temporarily lost my driver's license due to this condition. The closest grocery store is 7 miles away and I live far from family and friends so grocery shopping was nearly impossible at times. Grocery delivery was one of my only ways to get food. It can be useful in more scenarios than you can imagine.

I've met delivery app drivers who were literally crying on delivery because they're having trouble with bills and realizing there getting paid $40 to look around a store for 2 hours in addition to driving and delivering the actual food.

I understand that some people find a reason to use these services. I'll do my best to avoid them as long as possible.

I order directly from the grocery store and they deliver the groceries. The last thing I want to do after I drive an hour home from work (leave 6:20, return home 5:20) is walk all around a grocery store trying to avoid other shoppers. It's infinitely easier to order it while I'm working and have it delivered around the time I get home.

I hope ordering directly from them means a store employee is the one picking the items, so they know where stuff is and are being paid hourly, at least.

I'm working 8-5, 6-10 for the next 6 weeks. Sometimes it's helpful to have basic groceries at your door.

They did used to offer similar services between the 1950s and 1990s - just low-tech. You'd tell the milkman and the grocer what you wanted and it'd be on your doorstep at 7am in the morning.

If you don't own a car, or can't drive (at the moment) for some other reason, in a lot of suburbs in the US you literally don't have a choice.

Where I live in Germany there's also a lot of supermarket delivery, but they're generally picked and delivered by people working directly for the supermarket, not random gig economy dudes of the street, so since they have access to the stores inventory system they will automatically know what is available (and since the order app also has that access, you can't even order anything the supermarket already doesn't have in inventory at the time of ordering), and either automatically cancel, automatically substitute or send you a notification to pick an option if something is out.

Stay-at-home wife has the kids and doesn't feel like dragging them through the store. Proposes that it's cheaper to order instacart or shipped because they don't make impulse purchases. (and for Target I 100% agree)

Ordering for pickup at the store is an option, but they're shopping for the store, not you, so you're going to get the older produce and less attention to replacements.

Personally, I like grocery shopping.

Millennials are well on their way to boomerville

Can't speak for Instacart, but DD had a problem where the store could have a perfectly acceptable substitute in stock. But, the store didn't have the replacement UPC/SKU registered with DD. Because DD didn't know what you were adding, the shopper app would simply not allow the shopper to make the substitution.

So if the store switched produce suppliers, they could have 40 bushels of tomatoes available at the store, but the shopper wouldn't be able to put any of them in the cart.

I used to have to wander around trying to find products the same price as the replacement, then explain to the customer why I was adding a scannable $3.17 9 volt battery as a substitute for unscannable $3.17 worth of brussel sprouts.

I'm a man and I don't find it all that sexist.

It's a fairly lighthearted stab at how young men often lack basic life skills. In a patriarchal society, we've perhaps grown too accustomed to the women in our lives doing a lot of things for us because "men bring home the bacon, women keep things in order at home". Moms when we're young, then girlfriends, wives.

Yes, your version would work too, but not as well IMO.

I saw it as a commentary on how the patriarchy infantilizes men to the point where they don't even know how to shop properly. And that she doesn't have that experience with her now wife.

Which is sometimes unfortunately accurate. Every horrible insta experience has been a dude. It hasn't been many, but when I ask for frozen pizza, no you can't swap it out for frozen peas. I get that they share a lot of letters, but c'mon.

It is sexist, but I feel like at a different level. Growing up I was never expected to ever need to grocery shop, so no effort was made to familiarize me with the process. It was never said out loud, but skills like that were just assumed to be for women. No one said you couldn't, they just looked at you weird and you internalized that when you were young and just didn't think about it again. I am old but not that old, we had cell phones when I was a kid but our most advanced app was snake.

People don't realize how far we've come so fast but then also don't realize how unevenly applied that is. There are still a tremendous amount of men living objectively successful lives raised the exact same way I was that would be completely inexperienced with the idea of a produce aisle. If you're rich, poor or just in a specific culture you can still easily skip a lot of seemingly very basic skills and still be "well adjusted" by most metrics.