Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 23:25     Subject: Re:Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Why would I go to the grocery store myself when I can exploit cheap foreign labor to do it for me? I love immigrants!
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 22:22     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


It's not free. There's the uncharged on each item and 15-20% tip.


According to this weekend’s WSJ, it actually is free right now because Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other grocers are eating losses to run delivery and pickup. Sure, you should tip. Saving 1-2 hours of free time is worth a tip! You’re avoiding boring manual labor, you’re not putting miles on your car, you’re not burning gas or electric, you’re not wearing your back out loading and unloaded heavy groceries.


Giant really is free for pick up. They don’t up charge the prices and they don’t even allow tipping.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 21:50     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


It's not free. There's the uncharged on each item and 15-20% tip.


According to this weekend’s WSJ, it actually is free right now because Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other grocers are eating losses to run delivery and pickup. Sure, you should tip. Saving 1-2 hours of free time is worth a tip! You’re avoiding boring manual labor, you’re not putting miles on your car, you’re not burning gas or electric, you’re not wearing your back out loading and unloaded heavy groceries.


This feels overly dramatic for what shopping is like living in a city. We live a few blocks from a decent store (think Safeway not Whole Foods) and just get what we need a few times a week. It takes 15minutes and no back problems.


Too many then
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 21:43     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


It's not free. There's the uncharged on each item and 15-20% tip.


According to this weekend’s WSJ, it actually is free right now because Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other grocers are eating losses to run delivery and pickup. Sure, you should tip. Saving 1-2 hours of free time is worth a tip! You’re avoiding boring manual labor, you’re not putting miles on your car, you’re not burning gas or electric, you’re not wearing your back out loading and unloaded heavy groceries.


This feels overly dramatic for what shopping is like living in a city. We live a few blocks from a decent store (think Safeway not Whole Foods) and just get what we need a few times a week. It takes 15minutes and no back problems.


Not just a big city thing at all. WSJ reports over 90% of the U.S. lives within a same day (!) zone for Walmart grocery delivery.

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-ecommerce-amazon-competitor-b7fe1cd5
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 21:08     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At least for older millennial and gen X families*

My last few visits to grocery stores it looks like all retirees shopping, plus a handful of singles using the salad and hot bars. The aisles are filled with solo workers collecting orders. It seems like parents my age, whether they're actually wealthy and super busy ( ) or merely want to give that impression, exclusively do home delivery or drive-up pickup. Even the upper middle income SAHMs I know who have plenty of free time during the day do at-home delivery or drive-up pickup for groceries. Is grocery shopping in-person becoming lower class and/or elderly retirees thing?

It's almost like status-conscious people don't want to be seen grocery shopping because of the perception it gives that they're not wealthy or have too much free time. At least that's kind of what it feels like after Covid.


OP, you are truly an idiot.


+1 this is such a troll
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 21:05     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


It's not free. There's the uncharged on each item and 15-20% tip.


According to this weekend’s WSJ, it actually is free right now because Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other grocers are eating losses to run delivery and pickup. Sure, you should tip. Saving 1-2 hours of free time is worth a tip! You’re avoiding boring manual labor, you’re not putting miles on your car, you’re not burning gas or electric, you’re not wearing your back out loading and unloaded heavy groceries.


This feels overly dramatic for what shopping is like living in a city. We live a few blocks from a decent store (think Safeway not Whole Foods) and just get what we need a few times a week. It takes 15minutes and no back problems.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 20:59     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


Only a matter of time until ALL (ahem) family duties are passed on to the servant class.


Welcome to the US, becoming like a "developing" country where that's how it's done
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 20:55     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


Only a matter of time until ALL (ahem) family duties are passed on to the servant class.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 20:52     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:Single mom who only does delivery. Definitely not a status thing, more a sanity thing. I can stick to my list (save $), not forget things, and save time. I will never grocery shop again, if I can help it.


You should go in once in a while to see how things have changed inside like for ex what seems like every shopper has a dog with them. Eww yuck.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 20:47     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Single mom who only does delivery. Definitely not a status thing, more a sanity thing. I can stick to my list (save $), not forget things, and save time. I will never grocery shop again, if I can help it.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 19:42     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
There is plenty that I do not have to fondle to select. They deliver he heavy and commodity stuff. I get the meat, fish, sliced roast turkey.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 18:20     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


You're a very inefficient shopper if it takes you 1.5-2 hours to shop.


I’m guessing you do not know what door to door means? The drive, the parking, shopping, checkout, parking, drive homes unpacking everything. If you’re shopping for a family and live in or near Washington, it’s 1.5 hours easy.


You’re also an inefficient driver then
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 17:41     Subject: Re:Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Not really. Maybe it signifies people who are comfortable having other people choose their meat and produce for them.
Many people who cook for themselves are picky about the qualities of what they cook. If I want “fresh looking leeks” and “unblemished dark Orange sweet potatoes “ then it’s simpler and better for me to pick them myself.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 17:36     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


It's not free. There's the uncharged on each item and 15-20% tip.


According to this weekend’s WSJ, it actually is free right now because Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other grocers are eating losses to run delivery and pickup. Sure, you should tip. Saving 1-2 hours of free time is worth a tip! You’re avoiding boring manual labor, you’re not putting miles on your car, you’re not burning gas or electric, you’re not wearing your back out loading and unloaded heavy groceries.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2025 17:28     Subject: Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are more productive uses of time than wasting 1.5 to 2 hours door to door grabbing the same grocery items once a week. And grocery delivery is basically free, so it’s silly not to use it.


You're a very inefficient shopper if it takes you 1.5-2 hours to shop.


I’m guessing you do not know what door to door means? The drive, the parking, shopping, checkout, parking, drive homes unpacking everything. If you’re shopping for a family and live in or near Washington, it’s 1.5 hours easy.