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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think this is status related at all. Maybe time related. Of course it makes sense that retirees with no job can go to the market and shop for hours every day. Busy parents doing grocery pickup or delivery just makes sense for how busy they are. [/quote]

It's just an interesting observation is all. A broader theme of UMC becoming more and more secluded, seemingly outsourcing everything to a servant class. We don't go into coffee shops, we order from an app and don't have to speak to baristas. We don't go into grocery stores, worker bees deliver it to our door step. We take an uber and request the driver not talk.[/quote]

We make a little over 300k (does this qualify us as UMC per DCUM standards?). But we pop out to the grocery store all the time. I’ve tried curb side and Instacart, but invariably there is some issue with missing items or weird substitutions. We WAH and have flexible jobs, so I’ve thought that being able to randomly go buy some milk and a few dinner ingredients at 10 AM on a Tuesday is a luxury. We often chat with the drivers when we take Ubers. We like to go sit in coffee shops. We are out and about chatting with neighbors, we are not secluded (it helps we are in a walkable neighborhood with stores close by so lots of people are out of the house during the day). I go volunteer at my kids’ schools as a room parent. Most days after work I’m shuttling kids around to activities.

We do outsource things like cleaning and yard work, but otherwise enjoy having a pretty nice flex schedule so we can go do things ourselves. I have no interest in outsourcing my entire life and living like a hermit. [/quote]

You are the working poor. Why are you posting on this thread?[/quote]

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