That is the truly insidious part, people did know and use delivery often back in the day. It was in movies (remember the Chinese take out boxes all the time, those where delivered), it was promoted in every grocery store and was many a young persons first job. But like all things its gone in a weird way, now no one seems to deliver anything out side of being a contractor for an app. Our charities have changed in a similar way, less on the ground help (when I was 12 I helped a version of meals on wheels that had over 6 active vans in a city of 30,000) and more on remote support and fundraising. Not saying they are not trying to do good work, but what people expect in their community now is kinda depressing in its tiny underwhelming way.
Your right it is driving costs up, and also not always improving access outside of major cites. Here is a personal example; I used to be able to get food delivered at my house in a small rural town (1400 people) from the nearest city (25 min drive away). It was more money since you had to pay for the extra distance, and the delivery people did not like it (it cut down on tips spending 50+ min driving for one call) but it was possible. Now I don’t have that option, the Dashes/Ubers/Justeats just don’t even try. It might be that no one would take that job, it might be they never thought of it. Oh and we have as a town had to fund and support a local handibus non profit to deliver things to or drive to appointments people with mobility issues (for whatever the reason is).
Chinese and pizza were the only places you could be sure would deliver. Grocery deliveries, outside of charities that were not well known, were expensive enough to make doordash look like a charity.
Now if you go back a century or so, you might be able to phone the local General store and have little Jimmy bring a box of stuff for you, but little Jimmy is in the home now, and those times have been long gone before either of us were born.
Really? I used to order subs as a child often. Guess it depends where you where. Here in Canada things are spaced out when not in city’s and maybe that made delivery more common?
Point is still that places like DoorDash and the like are not positives for communities overall and the extra costs while paying less to drivers is causing real harm.
That is the truly insidious part, people did know and use delivery often back in the day. It was in movies (remember the Chinese take out boxes all the time, those where delivered), it was promoted in every grocery store and was many a young persons first job. But like all things its gone in a weird way, now no one seems to deliver anything out side of being a contractor for an app. Our charities have changed in a similar way, less on the ground help (when I was 12 I helped a version of meals on wheels that had over 6 active vans in a city of 30,000) and more on remote support and fundraising. Not saying they are not trying to do good work, but what people expect in their community now is kinda depressing in its tiny underwhelming way.
Your right it is driving costs up, and also not always improving access outside of major cites. Here is a personal example; I used to be able to get food delivered at my house in a small rural town (1400 people) from the nearest city (25 min drive away). It was more money since you had to pay for the extra distance, and the delivery people did not like it (it cut down on tips spending 50+ min driving for one call) but it was possible. Now I don’t have that option, the Dashes/Ubers/Justeats just don’t even try. It might be that no one would take that job, it might be they never thought of it. Oh and we have as a town had to fund and support a local handibus non profit to deliver things to or drive to appointments people with mobility issues (for whatever the reason is).
Chinese and pizza were the only places you could be sure would deliver. Grocery deliveries, outside of charities that were not well known, were expensive enough to make doordash look like a charity.
Now if you go back a century or so, you might be able to phone the local General store and have little Jimmy bring a box of stuff for you, but little Jimmy is in the home now, and those times have been long gone before either of us were born.
Really? I used to order subs as a child often. Guess it depends where you where. Here in Canada things are spaced out when not in city’s and maybe that made delivery more common?
Point is still that places like DoorDash and the like are not positives for communities overall and the extra costs while paying less to drivers is causing real harm.