#or i have to order delivery or curbside pick up

[allylikethecat]

irl matty at erwhon!!!! do u think he got an $18 dollar smoothie???

-🥤

(ps i accidentally sent the first ask to my other fav fic writer betweenthings2 and i’m very embarrassed)

Hello My Dearest Smoothie Anon!

I saw the picture!! He looked so very soft even though I was like sir why are you tucking your tee shirt into your sweat pants you look silly (said with love and care) Also how did Matty Healy of all people end up with IU sweatpants?! That just feels very random but also I kinda love it for him. I hope for both of our sakes he did get one of those ultra expensive smoothies and that he enjoyed every sip of it because he deserves to treat himself!!

Also I'm dying, I'm sure @betweenthings2 doesn't mind! They are ultra talented and I am so looking forward to sitting down and reading the new fic they posted a few days go! I haven't had a chance yet, (I'm weird and like to read fic in "ideal situations" ex. on my couch, on my iPad, with my favorite fluffy blanket and a diet coke rather than frantically on my phone while doing twenty other things at once lol) but I'm sure it's absolutely brilliant as all their work is!

As always, it is so wonderful to hear from you smoothie anon and I hope you are having a fantastic Tuesday and that the rest of your week is the very best! I hope you also have a fancy expensive smoothie in YOUR future because like Matty, you very much deserve it!

❤️Ally

[milfgyuu]

What about svt in ikea or target?

I didn't want these to be too similar to the walmart post so i kinda bounced back and forth don't mind my rambling.

seungcheol & mingyu drive the IKEA delivery trucks and hell yeah online orders w/ delivery piped up when the housewives got a look at who's ringing their doorbell. team-lift INDEED.

jeonghan & josh work in the target starbucks - joshie is on that register upselling every single order with insanely direct eye contact that leaves people thinking 'omg what are we?' while hannie is making hella drinks and writing fake phone #s on the cups when he hands them to customers with a wink. tip jar is full as hell boi.

jun & hoshi work in the IKEA cafeteria kitchen thingy but they eat ALL of the Swedish meatballs. both have been written up twice and they are on their final warning.

seokmin is a floor associate in the bedroom section of IKEA and he fucks up the name of every single piece of furniture but he is so pretty and sweet that no one really corrects him or points it out.

chan & boo work in the IKEA childcare center and they say they love it but they clock out every day looking like they've been thru a war zone. they're always sticky and smell vaguely like stale cotton candy.

woozi works for IKEA but he's the dude that comes out to the house for cabinetry installation bc i just think he would look so good with a toolbelt like idk my brain says woozi can build shit.

vernon is working target curbside pick-up because he only has to talk to people for like 3 seconds and that is more than ideal. always listening to music on the clock. always gets to pet the dog in the car if there happens to be one. only goes by color because he doesn't know car makes & models like that.

wonwoo is a target stock clerk and prefers to be as obscure as possible but somehow gets wrangled into conversations with six-year-olds in the Lego aisle and he's too polite and enamored to excuse himself to get back to work. let a kid once talk him into buying the $300 collectible Star Wars model.

minghao would be a cashier at either place and u know he's wearing his little cardigan with his glasses on the tip of his nose. heavily judges everyone's purchases but he always smiles when he catches you watching him so you can't really tell what he's thinking.

[theshadowrealmitself]

So my previous job was one of those app shopping jobs but! What a lot of people didn’t know about that company I worked for is that there were two positions

The first position, that everyone knew about, was the full service workers, these were the people who do the deliveries, so sometimes they would shop an order and deliver, or they would pick it up from our area where we already shopped it and deliver, they were considered contracted workers

The second position, the one I worked for, was the in store shopper position, we would get assigned a store, and we would spend our entire shift shopping orders back to back and putting them in the staging area which contained a freezer, fridge, some shelves, and a “hot” bag, that was just an insulated bag that could keep stuff warm for a bit, but definitely not hot, this position was only part time

Anyways, not a lot of people knew about the in store shoppers, which sucked, because people would hear about the strikes the delivery drivers would do, and would know about their mistreatment, but no one ever heard about us

And those working conditions sucked. One of the biggest things was that we didn’t have a break room. When I first started out, we were allowed to use the store’s break room (we were a separate company from the store), but like a year or so into working for them, the store decided that they only wanted their employees in it, so all of us were banned from it (this was apparently a decision made in all the chains)

Many employees started hanging out in their cars, but for me, who did not have a car, my only option really was to hang out on the curb in front of the store

We also weren’t allowed to store any personal food in the fridges or freezer, which made sense because it was a health code violation, but they definitely never supplied us with a mini fridge or microwave so that we could bring food, you’d either have to store it in your cars, or if you were like me, either buy food from the store (they were half hour lunches and every fast food place in the area had such long lines you could only barely get your food in time, had no chance to eat it), or just go without eating at all

Our company swore they would fix this but they never did

After we all got transferred over to a new store (no clue what was happening at the other stores) where we had to do curbside orders too, we were finally given a singular chair to have our breaks in

Which workers from the store would use occasionally and we weren’t allowed to say anything to them even though they had a big break room because our company wanted us to keep the peace with the store

They still never gave us a microwave or mini fridge

There was a lot more bs happening during this time (shift lead lying about how many breaks we were allowed so she could make us work more to make her look like an incredible shift lead, store workers stealing from us and then refusing to show us the surveillance tapes, the extremely high turnover rate because of all the different bs reasons they could fire us, etc) but I never stopped being upset the break room situation

Anyways, they got rid of our company from their stores because they’re going to do their own shopping system through their store (like how Walmart does it), so everyone in my company was laid off (you were able to move to full service, but since I still don’t have a car I couldn’t do that)

(Also it’s definitely not gonna go great with them taking over, the higher ups for that store never thought highly of our position and from what we’ve heard about how they’re going to do it, it’s obvious they still don’t, and they are so underprepared to take over)

This was originally going to be a post about an annoying customer I dealt with, I was just going to post a little bit of background on my position, whoops

[veresiine]

My retail job, most of the time, involves grocery store curbside pickup orders. So, to vent, I've made a list of things that customers do that bug me (and things they do that don't).

Categories:

Things customers think we hate, but we don't, and actually prefer over the alternative

Things customers do that I hate (that are relatively harmless but inconvenient and/or annoying to me)

Things customers do that I hate (that are rude)

Things customers do that we love

Content under the cut due to length. Also lots of food discussion, as is the nature of the beast.

Things customers think we hate, but we don't, and actually prefer over the alternative:

Calling ahead to let us know you'll be late and giving an ETA

Calling us and asking us to cancel or reschedule your order

Calling us for any change of plans, really. Life happens! We've had all kinds of things interfere with pickups. Births, deaths, car accidents, sudden hospitalizations, customers stranded halfway across the country for days. As long as we know when (and if) you'll be picking up your order, we can make arrangements as necessary to accommodate that.

Things customers do that I hate (that are relatively harmless but inconvenient and/or annoying to me):

Physically showing up in the employee area to inquire about your order progress and/or pick it up. If you forgot your phone and have no other way of contacting us we'll let it slide, but we get frightened easily when snuck up on, and feel pressured and cornered.

Trying to insist on tipping us after we have clearly communicated that we are unable to accept tips and could get in trouble or even lose our jobs over it. We appreciate the initial thought but WE COULD GET IN TROUBLE, we've already turned you down, you're just making it awkward.

Ordering larger amounts of items such as loose green beans, snow peas, or Brussels sprouts, which are sold by the pound. We are timed for every item; we are supposed to spend 30 seconds maximum on each item (locating, bagging, and moving to the next), and your 1 pound of green beans counts as 1 item.

When on the phone, interrupting or rushing me in the middle of my script (Thanks for calling, where are you parked, do you have coupons, how are you paying, etc.). Phone calls are difficult. Sometimes verbal speech at all is difficult. As I'm on the phone with you, reciting the script, I am also getting your order paperwork and/or electronic confirmation ready. The script gives me time to do that. Forcing me to deviate from the script has like a 25% chance of distracting me enough to forget a step, a 25% chance of throwing me off-balance enough that I need some time before I can speak coherently again, and a 100% chance of annoying me.

Asking when we'll get back in stock. We have no idea, 99% of the time, and even if we know it's been ordered, there's no guarantee it will show up on the truck.

Things that customers do that I hate (that are rude):

NOT TIPPING YOUR DELIVERY DRIVER, ESPECIALLY if you're ordering a lot of very heavy items like cases of water or bulk dog food. Even if you don't have the money to tip, at least have the decency to thank them for hauling so much stuff for you!

Ordering massive quantities of, say, on-sale meat items, without first independently calling the meat department. To begin with, if it's on sale, it's quite probable it's already sold out, and even if it isn't, you're clearly just hoarding and making it harder for everyone else. I'm not talking 2-3 big packs of ground beef or 2 turkeys; I'm talking 10 steaks, 5 family packs of pork.

Blaming us for the prices of things in the store. Yes, we know food is expensive. Yes, we know it costs so much more than it did last year. Many of my coworkers are food-insecure and often cannot afford to shop where they work. If we had any say over the prices, we would not be in this boat. Complain about the prices; they do suck, after all, but the instant you blame US, you're being rude.

When we're shopping, asking us where all the items you're looking for are. We are on a timer. The handheld shopping devices are tracking our every second and every action. Most of us are happy to point you in the direction of what you're looking for, provided we know the answer ourselves, but please don't keep coming back to us again and again and again. Also, because we are on a timer, it's nice to keep things straight and to the point. Some of my coworkers prefer it if you still say 'excuse me, could you please help me find ,' but provided your body language and tone of voice are not terribly aggressive, I happily respond to requests such as "BEETS?" and "where's bread?"

Insulting our coworkers. "I know it wasn't you, but the person who shopped this is an IDIOT-" we like them more than we like you. Even if it was a stupid mistake, don't go calling people names. We appreciate you letting us know an error was made and we'll do our level best to fix things and make things right. Besides, with some of the weirder errors, odds are it was made by a teenager who DOESN'T HAVE THE LIFE EXPERIENCE TO KNOW BETTER. Please don't be a jerk.

Things customers do that we love:

Ordering yogurt, especially multiples of each flavor. This is very good for our pick times! It's nice, quick and easy. Multiple produce items are also nice!

Giving notes on what you'd like as a substitution. "If this flavor is unavailable, please get X flavor". Or "I have a coupon; please stick to Y brand." We know what you want, you get what you want, everyone wins.

"Thank you!" notes. We read every one of them! Sometimes a simple 'thank you!' written in the order notes is exactly what we need to get through

Shout-out to one family of customers who find creative ways to bypass the 'no tips' rule. What they do is unrealistic for the average person to emulate, and I'll not get into specifics on the off chance someone from corporate sees this, but I will say they are much appreciated.

[nickgerlich]

Recruiting Mode

I am in my 42nd year of university-level teaching. At the risk of making it sound even more distant, that was in the fall semester of 1983. That’s long enough ago that your grandparents could have been in my class. Well, especially if they happened to go to Indiana U back then.

But in those 42 years (and 36 here at WT), I have never taught a freshman-level class. I have only taught junior-level and above, although I am sure there were a few sophomores along the way who were able to get in. I am completely out of touch with what it means to be a freshman, which in some regards is like a fifth year of high school.

Tomorrow, though, I will find out, because I am guest speaking in two BUSI 1304 Intro to Business classes, and speaking about the basics of Marketing. In some regards it is a sales pitch, because the other business disciplines are also taking their turn this semester at the podium, and I’m certain they’ll be in sales mode. But who better to be a salesman than the Marketing guy, right?

So I have been busy preparing a Powerpoint that I hope will cinch the deal. To juice it up a bit, I ventured to my local Walmart yesterday, not just to pick up a few items, but to instead walk the grocery side of the store in a different way. I was looking for examples of Marketing.

And you know what? Just as the title of my presentation aptly says it: Marketing. It’s Everywhere.

Naturally, I gravitate toward the grocery side of the store. I love any supermarket for that matter, because my dissertation research was focused on supermarket buyers, not the ones like you and me, but rather the corporate kind who make the decisions to carry an item or not. You see, for each of the 30,000 items in a Walmart Supercenter grocery, or the 45,000 items in a store like United Market Street, a decision had to be made. And before and after that, there was Marketing, aimed at companies and their buyers, and then you and me.

The average person may survey the aisles of their grocery and think that those items lining the shelves just appeared their randomly, that the stocking crew got together one night and said, “Hey, I think the Cheerios should go over here.” And “Why don’t we make a freestanding display of all the Doritos?”

Nope. There’s a method to the madness, a planogram for every category, and, as is usually the case, money that is paid from manufacturers to retailers just for the privilege of being there. Turns out that your grocer’s shelves are about the most valuable real estate in town.

But those are just details, the kind most shoppers don’t care about. They just want to get their groceries and go home. Each of those items all neatly faced to the front of the shelf are screaming. It may not be audible, but they are screaming at you, “Buy me! Buy me!”

As I perused those aisles, I also watched shoppers making their choices. You should do this sometime, but be discreet so they don’t think you’re a creeper. I saw the Hurried Shopper, the middle-aged man zooming the aisles like an F-1 driver and grabbing the items he needed as if he were on a bombing mission. I saw Thoughtful Mom reading labels and comparing items. I saw Walmart Employees pushing tall carts with numerous bins, these employees picking a dozen or more orders for either curbside pickup or delivery.

I took about three dozen photos of products. I captured the depth and breadth of the many pastas they carry, in practically every shape and size. Some were gluten-free, others made from peas. I saw tortillas whose package proclaimed “carb balance” and Keto-friendly. I saw plant-based, vegan, dairy-free, organic, “natural,” and other items.

I saw junk food. I saw “heart healthy” junk food. I saw junk food made from chickpeas. I saw seasonal items, from Starbucks PSL espresso to egg nog. I saw cereal boxes with the Kelce Bros’ endorsements. I saw product tie-ins with a pro sports league, as well as Star Wars and Disney. I saw private label products, and even one private label line aimed squarely at Millennials and Gen-Zers.

I saw Jif peanut butter in squeezeable tubes, so you never have to get it all over your knuckles trying to scrape the jar clean. I saw items making health claims, like “Immunity.” As if drinking cranberry juice with added vitamins is going to keep you off the Disabled List. And lastly, I saw the just plain weird, like the Coke Zero-Oreo collab I talked about earlier this term, and three offerings from the Heinz Ketchup people: MayoRacha, BuffaRanch, and MayoMust.

You could say I pretty much saw it all. The next time I return, it will be different, because there will be more new products being pitched to supermarkets and ultimately to consumers. Other products on the shelf today may not be there tomorrow, replaced by something with just a little more sales potential.

That, my friends, is what Marketing is all about. It’s about making and selling stuff. Pretty simple, huh? Yeah, I’m going to have fun tomorrow. I’ll be in recruiting mode. Just sign on the dotted line.

Dr “What’s In Your Basket?” Gerlich

Audio Blog

[flamecannap]

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[nickgerlich]

Twenty-Four Hours To Go

I remember the first time I was exposed to a 24-hour diner. I was at university in Indiana, doing my undergrad. It was also about the same time I became friends with coffee. We’re still good friends.

My dorm mates and I would pile into someone’s car and head to the nearby Waffle House. Now that’s not the familiar Waffle Houses across the southland. No, this was an entirely different Indiana chain more akin to Denny’s. They welcomed us, if only to make the place look more crowded after midnight. Never the mind the fact that we weren’t spending much, and tipping even less.

I was probably exposed to this genre before university, but those kinds of things weren’t important to kids back then. But I fell in love with the notion, and found that I became energized about 1am. Bring on the lists to memorize, my caffeinated soul was ready to do some power studying.

After I moved downstate to Bloomington for grad school, it was newsworthy when the new Kroger store announced they were going to be open 24/7. This was great news for someone who doesn’t like crowds of shoppers. It’s almost Zen-like shopping at 3am, observing all the other zombie-eyed shoppers pushing their trolleys along.

I was hooked, and praise God, Walmart embraced the concept as well. There are 168 hours in the week, and I could pick any one of them to go shopping. That is, until everything came to a screeching halt in March 2020. I need not say more.

With practically everything shut down—depending on your state and locale, of course—the thought of being open eight hours, much less 24 hours, became moot. Curbside was a best-case scenario, if you were able to pivot to new ways of doing old things.

But once the pandemic subsided, and our hunger to return to the old normal began being sated, stores and restaurants were slow to return to 24/7. Even today, there are many businesses that not only have been reluctant to do so, but also have flat out decided they’re not going back.

And it signals what may well be a permanent scar, one among many inflicted by COVID. Consumer behaviors have changed. Available labor has declined. Costs of doing business have increased. It’s the perfect storm for an imperfect situation.

It’s sad, too, because a business that is closed thus has un-performing assets whenever the lights are out and the doors locked. It’s not as bad as it is for churches, many of whom are open for “business” only a few hours on one day of the week. You pay for the whole building as it stands, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The same goes for real estate taxes and utilities. If you’re not making money, you’re losing it, and the bills go on.

Among the consumer changes are a desire to eat earlier, eat out less, drink less, and not stay out late doing the things we once did. That doesn’t mean we have given up on sporting events, movies, and concerts, though. It just means we do those things less, effectively accepting a little shorter leash on life. COVID taught us to get by on a lot less, and with inflation still among us, we are able to handle it better because we’ve already been down an austere path.

We also learned that we can order online a lot more than what we did pre-COVID. Delivery, whether by courier or third-party driver, became a new normal. Groceries on our doorstep meant that we didn’t have to go at all, even if we rather liked those nocturnal missions. Everything else also on our doorstep meant that all that “shopping-in-our-pajamas” we thought we were doing a lot in the olden days was multiplied many fold.

Maybe I am just getting older, too. While I am not yet one of those home-before-dark senior citizens, I do know that if I am up after 10pm, I am living large. As much as I liked grocery shopping after midnight (there’s an ear worm for those of you who know that old song), I am good with doing it in the afternoon these days.

While some chains, like the southern Waffle House, have returned to full 24/7 operations, others are nowhere near what they once did. I suspect that those days are gone forever, with the realization that maybe—just maybe—we were trying to do too much, even though the alternative is to mourn the hours not spent earning revenues.

Besides, we could all use a little more sleep, and removing the temptation to be out and about may be a gift in disguise. And you can still shop Amazon. You may very well have it on your doorstep by noon tomorrow.

Dr “I’m Good With 15/7” Gerlich

Audio Blog

[kristenbrady]

Make Over $1000 a Week Working These Grocery Apps

In times when food delivery can run slow, especially during the summer months, it’s nice to know you can always count on grocery shopping/deliveries to pick up the slack. People gotta always get food and toiletries from the grocery store, right? (As a matter of fact, usually, every summer I experience what’s referred to as a “summer slow down.” But this year, now that most apps have added grocery delivery, I didn’t experience a slow down this year. In fact, I made more money this summer than I normally do in the fall or winter).

These apps discussed below have always gotten me through when things are slow in food delivery. Without further ado, let’s jump right in on how you too, can make over $1000 a week working the following grocery apps:

Uber

At the time of this writing, Uber had acquired Cornershop. Cornershop was an on-demand grocery delivery application online that operated across the United States, Canada, Columbia, Brazil, and Peru. They delivered pharmaceuticals, fresh vegetables, pet supplies, beauty products and home use products from over 3,000 stores, which included supermarkets such as Soriana, Costco, City Market, HEB, and Chedraui. (Currently, Cornershop just merged with Uber and it’s all in the Uber platform now).

At that point, not only were drivers able to do food delivery with Uber Eats, but they could now shop for customers at various grocery stores like Randalls and Costco.

Doordash

With Shop & Deliver, patrons may order from retail, convenience, or grocery stores, and have it delivered directly to their doorstep. For Dashers, this means you shop for the patron’s list of items inside the store, pay using your Red Card during checkout, and deliver their order. The orders provide many benefits for Doordash drivers:

Be paid more for orders, as compared with restaurant delivery orders

Make money during off-peak times so you do not need to schedule the day around the dinner or lunch rush

Do not wait for an order when you perform the shopping

Video courtesy: Pedro DoorDash Santiago YouTube Channel

Doordash recently added a new perk that if you complete 13 shopping orders with at least 95 percent fill rate they will allow you to “Dash Anytime.” That means you don’t have to schedule yourself to dash or wait for your zone to turn red… a great incentive!

I Expanded My Gig Work Repertoire with This Catering App

This company claims drivers can earn from $24 — $42 an hour

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Favor

If you happen to live in Texas, Favor is a must! This platform is the easiest way to get any store or restaurant in Texas delivered quickly. I use Favor to shop at Walmart and pick up orders curbside from HEB grocery stores. At the time of this writing, drivers weren’t able to know how much the customers were tipping upfront as with other apps, but in my experience, customers on this platform are always very generous. (Currently, they started adding upfront information).

Spark

Recently, Walmart acquired Spark. On the Spark Driver app, it’s possible to deliver or shop for patrons of Walmart and other types of businesses. All that’s needed to get up and running is a smartphone and a car. Basically, when you pick up an order through the Spark app you head to the requested Walmart location, park in the curbside pick up area, pop the trunk, wait for an associate to load your trunk with groceries, and deliver them to the customer. Easy as pie!

Shipt

What: Shipt pays shoppers to shop for and then deliver groceries

Expected rate of pay: $7 to $20/delivery

Commissions and fees: N/A

Available: Nationwide

What are their requirements: Shoppers must be 18 and up; have a valid United States driver’s license, car insurance, a reliable car; capability of lifting 40 lbs.; smart phone (Android or iPhone); shopping experience and insulated cooler bags.

Instacart

This platform partners with the most sought-after regional and national retailers like ALDI, Albertsons, CVS, Costco, Loblaw, Kroger, Sam’s Club, Publix, Wegmans, Sprouts, etc. Their marketplace offers over 900 trusted local grocers and retailers customers love.

Instacart shoppers can expect to be paid between $5 and $10/ delivery, for an average of $17/hour including tips.

Ready to Start Your Own Grocery Delivery Business? Get Started With Dumpling

Dumpling helps shoppers launch their own grocery delivery businesses, providing payment processing, marketing, and various support services for a charge.

Expected rate of pay: set by personal shopper

Commissions and fees: $19.99 + 3.9 percent credit card processing charge on every order. (Also, customers pay a 5 percent processing fee)

Available: Nationwide

Shopper requirements: 21 and up

The website works similarly to Instacart in that you’ll receive a credit card to be used to purchase groceries and it’ll help to book clients.

But, where your availability of jobs and pay is up to the website when working for Instacart, with this platform, it is all up to you. With Dumpling, personal shoppers work for themselves. The app is just a tool to purchase to launch and run your own grocery delivery business.

With this platform, you choose how much you want to charge to shop; what grocery stores you are willing to shop at; and when you are available.

Dumpling charges personal shoppers $19.99 to set up their account. For this, you receive business cards, a credit card, business coaching, a listing on their website, and accessibility to the website’s search engine and app to communicate with and book customers.

Also, there are continuing transaction charges of 3.9 percent on every order. If you make grocery shopping a FT job, you might be better off with their “pro” plan that charges a $29 fee per month, yet slashes the transaction charge to 2.7 percent.

They also charge a 5 percent fee to customers to pay for their service.

They also provide business coaching from other successful Dumpling shoppers, who are able to provide advice on methods of marketing your services, pricing your services, and creating a fantastic profile on both Dumpling’s website, as well as your own.

How it works: Once you receive a shopping gig, the platform advances enough funds to purchase groceries to the Dumpling credit card. Once the shop is done, it’ll charge the client’s credit card for the actual amount spent, and the fees. If the client’s card does not have enough funds to pay, you are responsible for reimbursing Dumpling. But that rarely happens, and, thus far, they have reimbursed personal shoppers when it does. But they aren’t contractually obligated to do that. They claim that customer fraud losses are actually the responsibility of the personal shopper.

With that said, you’re building personal relationships with your clients; therefore, fraud losses are rare. One shopper on Dumpling claims that in over 400 transactions, she has only had one in which the client was slow to pay. Eventually, that client did pay, yet she had to ask repeatedly for her to do so. Obviously, she did not take any more orders from the scofflaw customer.

Just remember, it can take quite a while to build up a client base on Dumpling. Therefore, you may want to use the other apps mentioned above until you are able to get your business off the ground.

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[kenzumekodma]

I'm so down 👀

are you normally a dark roast drinker? okay, but, the green apron sounds delightful and I love blonde roasts!!!

It does make it so much better and I'm so glad you liked it!

fr!!! sbux customers are some of the rudest and most entitled I've ever had the displeasure of knowing.

it was super convenient. . . when the one store in my area that did it actually remembered about the curbside orders. They used to be super on it but the past few times I did it (months and months and months ago), they stopped checking to see when I had checked in and I waited for like 15 minutes past my pick up time. I'd understand if they were busy but this was pre-peak times and I walked in the store to get it and they were not busy.

And, now, I don't think they offer it anymore. At least, not at that store lol. I do miss the curbside, though. it was very nice.

normally i'm an instant coffee drinker tbh, i mix it with cold water, splenda, and grocery store creamer because it's a quick and easy way to get caffeine in me oop. my trainer called it my heretical coffee. but i got the cafe verona blend as my last mark out and that was really good. i think it's just the medium roasts that aren't my faves

oh oh i had my iced cinnamon dolce with blonde espresso and cold foam instead of whip and it was delightful asdlkfj

ugh that's awful! my fiancé just switched to online grocery in the store i used to work at and the wait times are like that too. although that's more to do with having too many call ins vs not checking the dpm. literally though you'd think if it was once they'd go out of their way to remember just in case it happens again

i'm just glad tho that my location doesn't have a drive through. the stress is enough with mobile, cafe, and ubereats deliveries lol

[cuz-reasons]

Deadnamed at the michaels yesterday, petsmart would never

[flamecanna6547]

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[fuck-customers]

This is actually something of a yay manager story from your local goose gas station employee, but mostly because I'm glad I didn't get in trouble lol.

My store recently started doing curbside and food delivery with your standard delivery companies (dashdoor, hubgrub, ect), and it's been absolute hell for a lot of reasons, chief amount them the fact that we're severely understaffed. Needless to say, there's been some grumpy customers die to wait times, but like, hey, what can we do? We're doing our best. The drivers that come pick up the orders, as far as I've dealt with them, have been cool, but yesterday? Ho boy.

So apparently, my coworkers have had issues with this woman's attitude before, but yesterday I got to experience it for myself. The customer she was picking up for had ordered drinks along with her food. The girl making them had worked for the company over a year and a half ago, and was a recent rehire, so she's still a little slow and makes mistakes, but again, she's doing her best. I wasn't a part of the situation down on that end of the food service area, because I was in the deli with another girl making the food for this woman's pick up, along with another delivery order and the orders of actual customers in-store, but we could hear the woman being incredibly rude to the poor girl. Whatever issue gets resolved and the woman comes and stands, arms crossed and huffy, directly in front of our deli counter, like, nearly pressed to the plastic barrier, and tells the girl I'm working with who is bagging the orders and labeling them "I need that order you're working on" in an incredibly haughty tone, but as I said, there were multiple delivery orders, so my coworker, rightly, asks "which one?" and the woman snaps "THAT one!" which tells us nothing, so my coworker asks for the name of the order and the woman gives the customer's name in the most sarcastic, ride tone you can imagine. Well, the girl just shuts down in the way you all may be familiar with, in order not to do anything that will potentially get her in trouble, and I stare the woman full-on in the face like she's crazy. My coworker finishes bagging the order, and the woman shoves the food on the counter for the in-store customers out of the way, snatches the bag, and turns to leave. We're stunned, but by the time she's about halfway to the door I manage to tell her not to come back. I shit you not when I tell you she whipped around like she was possessed and says "excuse me?" before marching back up to the counter. I'm a bit frightened because I'm thinking "oh shit what have I done??" before I manage to tell her that I'm going to get my manager because she was incredibly rude, and she point and my coworker and says "SHE was incredibly rude", which she wasn't, I was standing there the whole time. The woman goes on to complain about she's well past her scheduled pick up time, and I tell her that we're doing our best. She points down in the direction of the girl in the drink area and says "it's HER fault" and I explain that she's still relatively new and again, doing her best. The woman doesn't have any more to say because she just leaves, and when we get to tell our manager about it, she's totally on our side and immediately calls dashdoor to put a formal complaint in about this woman because she's tired of her attitude. When another coworker told her I told the woman not to come back, she said "good!" So I'm glad that the situation ended well for us, and I hope that bitch never picks up at my store again!

[eringoodyear]

Local to the area where my business would operate are 3 main competitors Roy’l Acres, S@R MicroGreens and Ten Twenty Vertical Farm.

Ten Twenty Vertical Farm offers online ordering only. They have 16 different varieties of products and have a subscription ordering process.  They offer weekly products with a free delivery on orders over $30.00. Although they have a large number of products, they have limits as to how customers can access their items.

Roy’l Acres identifies as a small family owned business that does not have a website. They have several different products that include micro greens but that is not their main focus. They only currently offer 6 different types of micro greens.  Their facebook page offers curbside pick-up for orders and they have limited numbers of stock on items. This company has a very wide variety of products that are not related to Micro Greens. They have stock limits and no web presence except for Facebook.

The most successful and diverse company is S@R MicroGreens offers 11 different micro green options and different products made from micro greens like infused butter and sauces, dressings and powers. They have a store location as well as online options for purchasing. Delivery or pick to best suit their customer’s needs.  This company has the most followers on social media, the contents of other product base are all connected to Micro Greens and they offer a wide variety of items that are cost effective with options for purchasing to meet the needs of the customer.

Following reading about these companies I know that I need to ensure that my marketing solutions are meeting the needs of the customers. That I am cost effective and have enough product to meet the supply and demand. Offering diverse ways for customers to purchase their items is essential along with ensuring that my product tastes great and meets their needs!  Look out competition here I come!

[mrs-hollandstan]

The One Where They Get Married During Quarantine || Tom Holland

Warnings: talk of the current pandemic, minor mentions of smuttish themes towards the end, language, talk of babiesssss

Word Count: 5,440

Author's Note: I like the way this came out! Thank you for the support on going through with it and I hope you enjoy :)

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                Join us for the Wedding of 

                            Y/N Y/L/N

                                  &

                        Thomas Holland 

                 Saturday, March 28th 2020

              At Three O'clock in the Afternoon 

                Royal Botanical Kew Gardens

                  Richmond, United Kingdom 

That goddamn invitation stared you in the face from its place on the desk. It was Sunday, March 29th, and you still weren't married to the man of your dreams. You received an email three weeks before that your venue was forced to close their doors for the quarantine and you were stuck at home with not only Tom, but his brother, and both of his best friends. They'd had their fun with the pub quizzes, puzzle building, chicken raising, challenge accepting, but your fiancé always sensed the discontentment that radiated off of you and he was always willing to try and calm it to the best of his ability. But it never seemed to fully work, Tom knowing more than anyone that the fact the wedding you were so excited to plan, exhausted so much time and money into, wasn't happening when you wanted it to. You had a dress hanging in your shared closet, shoes, everything down to the cake delivery plan and the bouquet pickup dates. But it was all cancelled and it was like it was stored in a box and put up on a shelf. And to you, it seemed like Tom didn't understand the way you did, he wasn't hurt the way you were. 

Tom sighs as he enters your bedroom, closing the door behind him and cooing down at Tessa and nearing you. His eyes wander from your figure, one leg drawn up to your chest to the laptop now asleep in front of you. He leans down to press a kiss to your cheek, feeling the anxious waves roll off of you once more,

"You alright darling?" He asks anyways. You nod and he knows you're lying because he follows your eyes to the invitation you had gleefully told him would end up in a scrapbook when you got past the wedding. He sighs again, moving to sit back on the bed,

"I know how upset you are babe. And you know I hate it too. I loved the idea of seeing you walk down that aisle in this beautiful dress with our family around and all." He states. You can feel the tears burn your eyes as he speaks. You nod, letting him wheel your chair between his legs and clear your hair from your shoulder, 

"Talk to me love. You know I hate when you're quiet. You're never quiet." He says. You swallow, lips pursed for a moment before you sniffle and shake your head, 

"We would've been married a day today Tom. We would have had our dream wedding yesterday and we would have been in Fiji today." You express, Tom flinching at the anguish in your voice, 

"I know love. It sucks, it really does." You nod, reaching up to pinch the bridge of your nose. Not only has your wedding been shelved until further notice, but you're stuck in a testosterone filled house 24/7. You had hoped that soon, maybe in the next year or so, you and Tom would be finding your own place, being newlyweds and starting that family you so badly wanted. You let out a sob that kills Tom and his brain runs a mile a minute at what he can do for you. He clicks his tongue, dragging you into his arms and listening to you sob. He runs his fingers through your hair, eyes closed as he lets you cry, knowing how hard it’s been on you. Not only the wedding, but the quarantine. He always had a way with feelings and he always knew what you were feeling even if you didn’t say it. He sighs,

“I wish there was something I could do for you darling.” He mutters into your hair, kissing your temple. His head continues to throb in thought, eyes darting back and forth as he tries to come up with an answer good enough for you. And then it hits him. He sits up, standing after a moment to drop to his knees at your feet, 

"Baby, babe, I have an idea." He starts, tugging your hand from your face and holding both of yours in both of his, "Darling, hear me out. You and I have been looking forward to this wedding for months, almost a year. So, what if we go through with it and set up a little wedding ceremony in the back yard, just us and the boys and just fuckin do it still? What do you think?" He asks. You stare down at him, watching his eyes swirl in worry and hurt at the sight of you, his thumbs coming up to collect the tears from under your own eyes, 

"I think it could be cool. We could- I-I mean you have your dress and I have more fucking tuxes than I know what to do with. I could- that florist we were using is doing curbside pickup and we paid for the order, I could go pick up just your bouquet and we could set up some chairs in the backyard-"

"Tom, someone would have to ordain it."

"Says who? We just have a little ceremony, wear our rings and when the world is normal-ish again, we go out and get married for real, reception and all with our families and we can... cure your little depression." He tries to lighten,

"We can just... wait until like August or something." You try and brush off. Tom quickly shakes his head, 

"Fuck that. You wanted a Spring wedding with all the pastels. We're not settling for an anniversary in August when we were excited for March or April. If we're doing it, we're doing it now or we're doing it next Spring and I've waited long enough to make you my wife. I don't want to wait another year." He reasons. After a moment, he purses his lips, 

"I wonder..." He trails off, standing from his knees and starting out of the room. You throw your arms up, Tessa taking his place on the bed behind you, tail shuffling the bedding as she laps at your cheeks and you squeal. 

Tom hurries down the hall and into the living room where the boys are playing Call of Duty, just like he left them. He presses the button on the TV to turn it off and gain the full, undivided attention of the now irritated, chattering boys. Tom waves his hands in the air to quiet the group, 

"I'll turn it back on in a minute, I need to ask a favor of you guys." He yells over them. They quiet then, watching Tom lick his lips, 

"I need... h-have any of you thought of getting ordained as a minister?" He asks. All three pairs of eyebrows furrow, the boys looking between themselves before Harry looks back up at his brother, one eyebrow raised, 

"Fucking what?" Harry asks. Harrison snickers before Tom rolls his eyes, 

"I was thinking Y/N and I could have a wedding ceremony in the backyard but we need someone to officiate for it to actually mean anything. That's what she's most upset about. I just... I was wondering if one of you guys could do it." He elaborates, suddenly feeling small, stupid. The room is silent for a moment before Tuwaine tsks, 

"Fuck it, I'll do it. It'll give me something to do in this damn house." He speaks up with a shrug, Tom's heart feeling a little more free now that Tuwaine has agreed. Tom thanks him, watching his friend nod, 

"How long do you think it'll take?" Tuwaine shrugs again, 

"Think it's like two weeks." Tom nods and turns the TV back on before turning and starting back down the hall. He slams his door behind him, finding the desk calendar that has had big red X's across it for weeks now. He tosses it on the bed before your newly laid down figure, 

"Pick a new wedding date two weeks from now. Any date you want." He says, chocolate colored eyes sparkling up at you in so much intent. You sigh, rubbing your thumb across Tessa's paw as you raise to an elbow and look over the calendar. It takes you a moment, but you point to the 11th of April. Tom finds a marker on your desk and adds the text, "New Wedding" before he returns the calendar to the spot in front of you,

"Tuwaine has agreed to get ordained and... we can get married the eleventh in the backyard. I'll pick up your bouquet and I can... go get a cake from the store and we'll just have a little wedding here. It'll be small and... maybe not as pretty as the wedding we spent all that time planning, but it's ours and that's what matters." He reasons. You nod, staring down at the grey puppy laid before you. He stands, leaning over your body to kiss your forehead, 

"I'll do the best I can to make you happy with this. I know it isn't ideal but... I think it'll be beautiful babe." You nod, glancing up at him. He smiles, 

"I'm excited to see you in your dress baby. I love you and I just know you'll be gorgeous." He says, kissing your lips softly. You nod, petting Tessa and feeling the tightening in your chest let up, the excitement growing inside your belly like it did the first time you planned a wedding, 

"Yeah. I think it'll be nice to... just actually be able to say we're married and have that strength during this... really fucked up time." You confirm. He nods, 

"I'd love to have Mrs. Holland runnin around here the rest of quarantine. We didn't think this whole lockdown thing would happen and I like the idea of going through with our wedding in it. A big fuck you to the world." You admit. He hums, staring down at you before he smiles and stands again, 

"Lets fuck around and get married then yeah?" You can't fight the smile as he takes your hands. You squeal as he pulls you up into his arms, your arms wrapping around his shoulders as he kisses your cheek, 

"You know that if I could choose one thing to do outside of quarantine it would be to marry your fine ass. That hasn't changed and I don't think that this fucking shit should take over. We still have that love for each other and I think we should still go through with it around the time we said we were going through with it." Tom explains. You nod as he rubs your arms, 

"Me too. I think it's a really good idea." He smiles and nods, 

"And the best thing is that... bullshit thing you'd said about spending all that money on that dress for a one time wear will go out that window because I'll pay for another big ass wedding when we can have one." Tom reassures. You nod, laying your head against his shoulder as he sways you. He holds you close, eyes closing in peace now that he knows he can at least give you somewhat of that fairytale wedding you planned. 

Neither you or Tom could deny that the excitement of your backyard wedding was getting overwhelming just as the idea of your actual wedding had. Tom had added a few more people to your guest list to include his parents, Paddy, Sam, and Elysia and your parents were set up to facetime you and watch you marry your fiancé from a different country. In that time, Tuwaine had acquired his officiant license and had printed off a marriage certificate to ensure your legal anniversary was April 11th. You had helped pick out a tux to wear and reached an agreement with Harrison that Tom would use his room to get ready so you could maintain the secrecy of your dress, hair, and makeup. The last of Tom's endeavors was picking up the colorful bouquet from the florist, handing it to his mother who followed Elysia towards your bedroom to help with hair and makeup. The last of your priorities was discussing your want for his father to walk you down the aisle for the full feel, the group setting up an arch Tom's parents already had in the backyard of their own to give the pictures Harry agreed to take, a better look. The only thing agreed upon when it came to picture taking was it remained strictly after the ceremony, the both of you wanting everyone to enjoy the ambiance and not worry about what jobs they're supposed to be doing. 

Sam, Paddy, Tuwaine, Tom, Harry, Harrison, and Dom had spent the time setting chairs up, decorating the arch in things you'd already bought for the wedding, each man doing their fair share of trying to calm Tom of his nerves but nearly to no avail. By four o'clock, he's standing before the arch with Tuwaine who continues to try and calm him. Nikki and Elysia exit the back door, Tom's eyes drawn to the inside of your house. Once he sees movement, his heart skips a beat and you, in all of your beauty, emerge, arm looped in Dom's as he escorts you towards his son and your future husband. You smile when you catch his eye, gripping your bouquet tight in your hand. Dom pauses, snapping to relinquish Tessa, basket handle held in her mouth which contains your rings. Each of the family members laugh, including Tom who crouches and greets the puppy in the pinkish white dress he'd bought her a few years ago. He has her sit as Harry, having already connected his phone to your Bluetooth speaker, begins to play "Canon In D" and the rest of the group stands to welcome you out,

"Deep breath. Last thing I need is you passing out before I get you there." Dom jokes as you begin walking, ivory heels sinking into the grass beneath your feet, something you hadn't planned on dealing with when it came to your originally planned wedding. You smile up at him, holding his bicep tighter and taking breaths to calm your pounding heart. Nikki catches your eye, iPad with your parents smiling widely from their living room back home in hand. Her smile matches, the same as Sam, Paddy, Elysia, Harrison, Harry, and Tuwaine as Tom stares you down. The image of him is seared into your brain, tears in his eyes and it's everything you've imagined it'd be, of course under different circumstances. Dom pauses just before Tom, you fiancé stepping forward to take your hand from his father,

"Who gives this woman to this man in marriage?" Tuwaine asks, Tom and Dom meeting eyes before his father speaks, 

"I do." Dom says, leaning in to kiss your cheek and pat Tom on the shoulder before he takes your bouquet and joins Nikki. Tom helps you stand across from him, finally on cement again,

"You look beautiful darling." He mutters, 

"Thank you. You cleaned up nice yourself." You reply. Tuwaine clears his throat as Tom rubs his thumbs across your knuckles, 

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to witness the union of Thomas Stanley Holland and Y/N Y/M/N Y/L/N in marriage. Not only have all of us witnessed the love and dedication the two have for each other, but we shall all feel privileged knowing they chose us to witness the matrimony these two shall embark on. We have watched both grow and thrive and mature in the company of each other and now we are blessed to watch them grow further as husband and wife, as one entity." You smile at Tom who takes a deep breath at Tuwaine's introduction. Tuwaine pauses for a moment before he begins again, with the readings, 

"You each chose a quote. So Y/N chose, from Maya Angelou, 'Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps, hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.' Tom, you chose, from George Eliot, 'What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?'" Both quotes had been made for you it seemed. There were so many things within the relationship that proved to be a hurdle for the both of you. Tom obviously traveled a lot with his job, and you had to deal with the distance for long periods of time, both as his girlfriend and fiancée. The facetime calls killed you and your heart hurt daily until you were with him again. And when you were, it was freeing. No matter how long you'd been apart, Tom always came back and you were always together and back to being in love like he never left,

"Now, you both have prepared vows. We'll do those now," Tuwaine remarks and Sam stands to hand both folded papers over, "Y/N, read yours first." You unfold the paper, heart pounding at the vows you'd prepared months in advance and had recently edited to fit the current circumstances. You clear your throat, 

"Tom, my love, my light. You have always been my rock at both my best and my worst, through everything. You have always pushed me to be the best version of myself that I could be and you've always been the most wise and selfless person in my life. My love for you is immeasurable and I have never been able to imagine my life without you and your happy, carefree, charisma, spunk in my life. I've been infatuated and in love with you for years and I've always known, for as long as I can remember, that I've wanted to spend the rest of my life with you, just the two of us being in love. As my husband, I promise to stay the same crazy person you agreed to date all those years ago. I promise to continue to annoy the hell out of you, cling to you in the morning when you try and get up, stick my cold feet and hands on your bare skin, and ruin your tea every once in a while, sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident," Tom laughs, sniffling back his tears, "but more than anything, as your wife I promise to always be your quarantine buddy and I promise to always love you unconditionally and make you as happy as I can and at least pretend to love the same things you do just to listen to you ramble in the adorable way you always do." You finish, reaching up to dab the tears away. Tom's laughter dies down and he clears his own tears away, the rest of the group doing the same as you fold the paper back up. Tom smiles, staring down at you with such adoration in his eyes. Tuwaine allows a brief pause before turning to his friend,

"Now Tom, will you please read your vows to Y/N?" The brunette nods, unfolding his own sheet of notebook paper and clearing his throat, 

"I don't know that mine are that good but uhm... I tried." He mutters, laughing along with you and the family. He purses his lips for a moment before clearing his throat again, licking his lips and his eyebrows knit together for a moment, 

"Y/N, the love of my life, my biggest supporter, and my confidante, I have never loved anyone more than I have loved you and I have never been loved by someone like you. My biggest regret will always be not giving you the wedding you so obviously deserve even though I've promised to throw you the biggest reception ever once the world starts spinning again," you giggle, clearing your tears again, "you have always stuck with me, through thick and thin, through terrible time differences and long months apart only to welcome me back like we've just paused time. You're compassionate, beautiful, funny, and so silly and I have never had a dull moment with you and I know I never will. My promise to you, as your husband, is that I'll never make life boring. I'll always be your rock, I'll always give your life meaning the way you've done for me, and I'll always make sure you know how loved you are. No matter how many times we fight and how stupid those fights are. And no matter what, there is no one I would rather marry during quarantine than you. I would do anything for you, both before and even more so after quarantine and making you happy in any way I can is what I'll always do. I love you." He finishes, sniffling and folding his vows back up to tuck in his inside pocket,

"I love you too." You whisper as he takes your hands again. There isn't a dry eye in the house, not even Tuwaine who, from the beginning has watched and listened to one of his best friends fall in love with you and now he has the privilege of watching it come to fruition. He was given the privilege of marrying the two of you in an equally as beautiful as your original, backyard wedding. He sniffles himself before looking down at the pages he holds, 

"Alright, now the exchange of rings. Tom, please find Y/N's ring and put it on her as you say the following phrase." Tom nods, kneeling to fish the beautiful diamond ring he’d proposed to you with, from Tessa's basket, patting her head before he stands and looks at the paper in Tuwaine’s hands, clearing his throat again. He takes your hand again, staring up into your eyes as he starts,

“Y/N, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love. As it encircles your finger, may it remind you always that you are surrounded by my enduring love." He repeats the phrase from the paper, glancing up into your eyes again as he slides the ring all the way onto your finger, licking his lips. Tuwaine allows another pause before he turns to look at you, 

“And now Y/N, the same.” He commands, waiting until you retrieve Tom’s ring to hold the page out to you,

“Tom, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love. As it encircles your finger, may it remind you always that you are surrounded by my enduring love.” You relay to the man across from you, a smile crossing his features. He knows what follows and it’s surreal knowing that it’s happening. He’s marrying you, the love of his life, in his garden and life can’t get much better. Tuwaine turns his page,

“Now, by the power vested in me, you may kiss your bride.” He directs Tom’s way. His dark brown eyes meet yours before he steps forward, one arm wrapping around your waist, the other reaching up to caress your cheek before he leans in to kiss you, your own arms looping under his. The crowd around you claps as Tom kisses you, leaning you back just the smallest bit before he leans back himself, pressing his forehead to yours and smiling, kissing you once more before he stands back and glances up at Tuwaine, smiling down at the two of you,

“Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley and Y/N Y/M/N Holland.” Tuwaine hollers as both sets of parents, Tom’s siblings, Tom’s best friend and Elysia all cheer and Tom thrusts your hand, wrapped in his, up in victory. He glances over at you, smile wide across his face as he leans in one last time to kiss you and Harry plays the song you set to walk back down the aisle to, Tom leading you with your hand in his back inside the house. Once inside, he squeals, pulling you in,

“You do realize we just got married right? Like… you’re Mrs. Holland now. As you should have been two weekends ago.” Tom reminds. You giggle and nod, glancing down at the ring on your finger,

“Yes I do. I love you more than anything.” You tell Tom who holds your waist as you lean in for yet another kiss, your family entering the back doors. Each of them beeline to congratulate you, each of them dishing out hugs and kisses, the girls asking to see the ring on your finger. You take the iPad from Nikki's hands, greeting your parents and showing them the wedding ring on your finger. They ask for Tom who presses a hand to your lower back, greeting them cheerfully and thanking them as they dish out congratulatories, 

"Right," Tuwaine's voice booms out over the chatter. He looks between you and Tom, holding up a piece of paper, "Pardon the interruption, but I need bride, groom, and two witnesses to make it official, official." He remarks. Tom wraps his arm around your waist as you hand Nikki back the iPad, 

"So... who do you reckon is lucky enough to be our official witnesses?" He whispers in your ear. You sigh, 

"I dunno. Uhm... your mom and... your best friend?" You pose quietly as to not offend anyone. He smiles and reaches out to fluff your hair with a smile, 

"I think that's a good idea," he turns to the group, "mum, Haz... will you guys... be our witnesses?" Tom asks. You see the devotion, the adoration and respect in Harrison's bright blue eyes as a smirk tugs at one corner of his mouth. He nods, 

"I'd be honored." He mutters, Nikki reaching out to rub your arm once she's handed the iPad to Dom, 

"Me too." She smiles wider as you and Tom follow Tuwaine to the dining room table, watching him lean in to sign the marriage certificate,

"First the officiant signs it, and then the two witnesses." He explains, handing the pen to Nikki. She smiles as she leans in and signs the paper, passing the pen to Harrison all while Harry is snapping photos. He snaps at you and Tom, 

"Lets get some pics of just you two outside with the arch." He says. You nod, taking Tom's hand and following the two boys outside and up to the arch, Tom's arm wrapping around your waist again. He sighs, 

"Nice day for a wedding, ay darling?" He jokes. You giggle and nod, leaning up to kiss him softly as Harry's camera clicks, your eyes darting between Tom's, 

"It's the perfect day for a wedding cutie." 

You watch through the back door as the boys play the same game they'd been obsessed with for months. You roll Tom's fingers in your own, tucking the blanket under your chin further. Tom sighs beside you, pressing his lips into your hair, 

"Darling?" You hum an answer, glancing up at your husband when he doesn't respond. His dark eyes find yours after another moment, 

"Are you happy?" He asks. Your eyebrows furrow, 

"What do you mean T?" He shrugs, threading his fingers through yours while you're preoccupied,

"I just mean... two months ago we watched this virus roll in and we never thought it would get this bad to the point we'd be spending every waking moment in this house with three other men and that it'd result in a wedding we were so excited to plan and see through and it wasn't... exactly what we planned, but, I dunno, I just mean, are you happy with what we had here today?" He elaborates, glancing back up at the stars that sparkle above you both from the place in your hammock. You linger in the silence for another moment before you shift to place your hand over Tom's beating heart, 

"Do you remember... that Jared commercial we saw the other night?" You ask. His eyes half roll as he thinks, teeth chewing the inside of his cheek and then he nods, 

"Yeah, the one with the virtual weddings?" He asks. You nod, 

"Do you remember what it said and how you nudged me to get the point of it all?" You pose. He nods,

"Yeah." You nod once more, 

"You did it because the point of that commercial is that it doesn't matter about the dress, or the cake, or the guest list or how formal everything is. What matters is the love the two people getting married have for each other, especially during trying times like now." You remind him. He smiles, playing with your hair, 

"Right." You rub his chest,

"Whether I married you today in our back yard with all of the things we have from our wedding or I marry you in August back in our venue with new stuff doesn't matter because it isn't the date that matters, it's you and me and how we show we love each other." His smile is bright as he squeezes your fingers between his. You sigh, 

"I could have married you in that dress in there with fifty people and a cake and a vibrant bouquet and all that in April or I could have married you in a trash bag in the middle of August with dead flowers and it would not have changed my love for you Tom." You reassure. He reaches out with his opposite hand to tuck hair behind your ear, 

"So you're happy?" He reiterates. You giggle, nodding and situating yourself to rest your head further up Tom's shoulder,

"Extremely. And always with you." He leans in to kiss you softly, 

"Me too love. My vows were 100% from my heart. I've never loved anyone like you and I would do whatever it takes to make sure you understand that." 

"I do. Mine were honest too. No matter what the problem, no matter how tired you are, you've always been there for me. I have never, ever been more in love with someone and I don't wanna know anything else. Of course... I've been down because I'm in a house with four guys and I don't get to have my fairytale wedding and honestly, we'd be looking for our own place, just the two of us but... I loved today. Our family and friends, my dress, my bouquet, my beautiful fiancè. I'm more than happy Tom." You explain to him. He strokes your hair down, leaning in to kiss you once more, 

"I love you more than anything Y/N." He says softly. You smile, reaching up to rub your thumb across his cheek,

"I love you too Tom," you hold your hand up, brandishing the wedding ring on your finger, "for life now. I've got you." You tell him. He chuckles, 

"Forever and always love. Now when we... get back to the world we'll get our own place, I promise, and... soon enough, we'll be tryin for some beautiful babies." 

"Slow your roll Holland, we gotta get outta this damn house first. And having a kid isn't our first priority once we do get our place." You jokingly scold. Tom chuckles, smile fading after a moment and he frowns,

"We aren't... going to wait til we move out to consummate our marriage are we?" He poses. You giggle, 

"I hadn't planned on it, no." 

"Oh thank god." He mutters, the both of you relaxing against each other, staring up at the stars for a moment longer. He sighs, fingers nonchalantly rubbing up and down your arm. He hums before pressing his lips into your hair again, 

"Happy anniversary love." He mutters. You glance up at him again, smile widening, 

"About damn time Mr. Holland." He chuckles again, 

"And now, every April 11th, for the rest of our lives, we'll be reminded of the day we got married in our backyard." He says. You lay your head against his shoulder, 

"I wouldn't have it any other way." You admit. His lips press to your forehead, 

"Me neither darling, me neither." He mumbles, wrapping his arm tight around you. And the uncertainty you had felt weeks ago when your wedding was forced to be cancelled, was gone now that you were in the arms of Tom. Not only your rock, but your husband. Now and always.

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