Are grocery services for the "lazy"?
DailyDot news: Walmart pick packer had 400 items for 15 orders during his work day and complained:
"Why are you buying the whole store? Customers dont give us a break." Internet replies.
Another worker in same job chimmed in: "this is average for us, sometimes we get 1,000 items to pack in a day, even at our sm store."
Others say "if you dont like your job, leave, others would take it. Besides its unionized and you get breaks."
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Some guy:
This is exactly why the service industry can't find or keep workers, customers are lazy and companies only care about making money and catering to whatever brings in more sales.
Too lazy to go in a pick out your own food? And no, there's NO excuse for it. Didn't need it 30 years ago, don't need it now.
Reply:
Um..excuse me sirrrr. Your ableness and privilege is showing. Were you aware these kinds of delivery services started to help the disabled and blind? It also helps moms with babies, parents who work long hours, people with with health conditions, (and those health-vulnerable who cannot be in public due to 3 yrs of covid).
You should consider all the possibilities b4 speaking.
Some guy:
oh give me a f ing break people need to toughen up, you wouldn't have survived 60 years ago, and good probably. The percentage of people using that service that are actually needing it is miniscule compared to the "priveledged" that are just lazy and don't want to do it. And people that really need it...that's what friends and family are for, that's how it's always been done for 10k years and more, it didn't all of a sudden change in the last 20 years. People didn't have "excuses" I guess before.
Reply:
Try again. I'm a Gen Xer who lived out of town, climbed trees, skateboarded (on home made kind w skates hammered to the board), roke bikes, played outdoors (doing things today that are regulated & have safety gear or safety features), made all kinds of stuff my own stuff thanks to 4H courses & my moms craftyness. Worked on cars by myself (cuz we had car class, and home ec), and the DIY mentality of our Gen.... (mz are the lazy ones, not us, our parents, grandparents, nor our grandkids. We see the value of these modern services and are glad they exist. I worked hard like my grandparents, (Korea and WW2 era, and Vet), as do many of us Americans.
Also I am a Veteran. with physical issues due to a car accident (years ago), and am also battling incurable cancer; someone who looks normal (to those looking at me from the outside). And yes theres tons who need that service, and are grateful we are in modern times that we have services like this, &....modern medicine, vehicles so we dont have to walk 20 miles & others to farm or bus people, taxis, uber, etc, motorized wheelchairs, also fast food, restaurants, pizza delivery, store pick up options, and phones, facetime to see each other countries or other states away, text, email, so we dont have to write snail mail letters to communicate, mail and packages ordered online must also be lazy, when you can just walk or ride a horse a few states away to go pick it up, oh & the invention of and convenience of "everything" internet.
Modern times are great. But yeah 🙄😒 everyone who uses all this modern stuff are "lazy". But, sure, God forbid 🙄 something is created to help the disabled and those who could use such wonderful helps.
It is sad you think of things only from your view. Not everyone lives in same town they grow up in, some come from small families, aging/elderly w health issues, who live far apart, as do friends, others moved to new town for college or a new job or to care for aging parents who might have a disabling condition, and help w shopping can take a huge weight off of their responsibilities, or as they get settled in a new & distant location for college and a job for 6 months, and unpacking etc. Some people are single and work 18 hour days or until bed and are exhausted and rest on their day off. You dont know everyone's situation. But assume its easy pesy like your cushy able-bodied life apparently.
I honestly feel sorry for the people in your life, if there are any, cuz you lack empathy and kindness, and make bad assumptions, but also easily blurt out things online like one who speaks before thinking. I really hope you arent married or have kids until you understand all these things, and have a happy mindset that such services exist for those who need it. I would feel so bad for your wife having to live with a guy who thinks all these modern helps are "lazy" things. Ps. it is not limited to the needs of the few "you think" there are. I has become a industry and useful service to all those who need and use it, including the employees it employs at the stores and the shopper/deliverers who make a living from it.
The "few" include :
People with incurable diseases: 155 million
*Includes people with cancer, asthma, respiratory issues pre and post covid, parkinsons, MS, etc.
(*and doesnt include those caring for them).
Blind people: 1.2 million are totally blind,
And 1.3 million are legally blind.
(*and doesnt include those caring for them).
People who have health issues that fatigue them easily, and those with chronic fatigue (aka Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), and also those with long term long covid issues making walking or stairs a fatigue & breathing issue: it affects 1 in 8 Americans: 12.5 million
Disabled people: 3 million who have difficulty (or severe difficulty) doing errands.
Semi able people with debilitating issues or health problems who cannot lift the weight of groceries. Like my step father who has a form of MS.
Elderly who need help: 15.5 million (# who need help)
Single moms: 11 million
A mom who has just birthed a child, and needs help for the first few months: 3,745,360 per year
Moms who are exhausted from 247 mom life, single mom or f/t w kids, and probably care for disabled & elderly parents.
Exhausted moms: 56.5 million (13%)
Number adult children unpaid & caring for:
elderly parent : 72% of Americans
Who are elderly disabled: 34.2 million
Note Millennial moms are caring for babies and aging parents at the same time.
Pre covid
80% of mothers had been primarily responsible for doing the housework, while 66% were chiefly responsible for the child care among 2 parent homes.
Single moms, ofc did it all. Most "fathers" were deadbeats.
3 yrs of covid
Moms struggled more than dads with childcare duties. As the pandemic went on 2 parent homes said fulfilling childcare duties became more difficult (52 percent, up from 38 percent in 2020), a larger share of moms (57 percent) than dads (47 percent) felt that way.
Number people who work overtime:
*71% in US work overtime at least 1x a week =
142 million
29% overworked 2-3 times a week. =58 million
About 19% of respondents worked overtime on almost all days of the week.= 3.8 million
77% of respondents said working overtime negatively affected their work-life balance.
Kids who get injured & go to hospital, who might get happy meal on way home:
672 per day = 245,280 per year.
Kids hospitalized and released annually:
3 million, pre covid, and not covid related.
(3 years) Pediatric Covid admissions:
> 1,354 - 3,081 a day or 1.1 million a year.
> 78% of these were hospitalized. About 50% needed help breathing, and nearly a 1/3 were placed in intensive care.
*These all probably got a happy meal after discharge, both an adult one for exhausted parents and one for the recovering child(ren).
Busy working husbands who take a load off wife (who is running home & raising kids) by ordering grocery delivery:
# ? Theres probably some decent ones who even if they work overtime will order for the family.
The list of reasons and people grocery service assists people probably goes on and on by a couple million.
Fun facts: the 1st online ordering service and delivery service was launched in 1994
80% have ordered food delivery at some point in their life.
67% in the USA used a grocery delivery service during covid era (2020-2023).
40 million have used grocery delivery in the last month.
The service being used by the few "who are lazy" is beneficial to those who need it. It means the service wont be cut off, and will benefit long term.
But sure... looking at the list, its "just a few" who you think need it 🙄. I guess you are Omniscient.
Though, of course 🙃 if you are a able bodied man who doesnt help his able, semi bodied, or even disabled wife who works 247, (or care for your aging elderly or disabled parents), you wouldnt know anything about these useful needed helps, you just work your 8 hrs and sit on the couch, thinking youve done something to be treated like a king, while shes a servant slave to you and works 247. 🙄
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