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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (97 children)

I'd love to see someone bring a shopping cart amount of groceries on a bus or train

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Grocery delivery is quick and cheap to 99% of UK. Also I've been on a bus plenty of times with enough shopping to last two humans a week.

Problem is the people who have 5 mouths to feed and want enough food for 3 weeks. In that case, get a delivery

[โ€“] KarmaTrainCaboose 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A delivery huh? I wonder by what mode if transport that would be delivered....

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a few seconds to think before replying.

What's better, 30 deliveries in 1 van or 30 deliveries in 30 cars?

[โ€“] KarmaTrainCaboose 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay but this isn't what happens. When using services like instacart they will batch only maybe two or three orders in a car. Unless there are other services that I'm not aware of that will batch more?

I don't think grocery translates well to mass delivery because it increases rates of spoilage and damaged produce.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I live in UK and all the major supermarkets do 20-50 deliveries in one fully refrigerated van. You do have to book it a couple of days in advance but that's the cost of the service, obviously you can get Uber and deliveroo instant deliveries but that's dumb as fuck.

This is clearly a culture difference between where I live and wherever you live (please share that info)

But yes it's EXACTLY how it works in most of Europe.

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