#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

[mahidhoot1234]

Grocery Store - Venkatesh Kirana

Great! If your blog is focused on grocery stores, there are many directions you can take depending on your target audience and the message you want to convey. Here’s a structured approach you can follow to write a detailed and engaging blog post:

Blog Title Ideas:

"A Shopper’s Guide: How to Make the Most of Your Grocery Store Visit"

"Behind the Aisles: The Hidden Secrets of Your Local Grocery Store"

"Healthy Grocery Shopping: Tips for Filling Your Cart with Nutritious Options"

"The Evolution of Grocery Stores: From Local Markets to Online Shopping"

"Sustainability at Your Local Grocery Store: How You Can Make a Difference"

Blog Structure & Key Points:

1. Introduction:

Start with a hook: You could start by highlighting how essential grocery stores are to daily life. Maybe mention the rise of grocery shopping trends, or how people have shifted between in-store and online shopping in recent years.

Why it matters: Explain why grocery shopping is important—not just for stocking up on essentials, but for making healthy and sustainable choices.

2. The Importance of Grocery Stores in Our Communities:

Cultural significance: Discuss how grocery stores serve as community hubs. They aren’t just places to buy food; they often provide local products, foster connections, and promote community well-being.

Economic role: Mention how grocery stores contribute to the local economy by providing jobs and supporting local farmers or small businesses.

3. Types of Grocery Stores:

Traditional grocery stores: Chain supermarkets, local grocers, etc.

Specialty stores: Organic markets, international grocery stores, health food stores.

Online grocery stores: How the convenience of ordering online has impacted traditional grocery shopping.

4. Grocery Shopping Tips:

Budget-friendly tips: How to make the most of your budget when grocery shopping (e.g., using coupons, buying in bulk, planning meals ahead of time).

Health-conscious shopping: Discuss tips for picking healthy products like fresh produce, whole grains, and organic items.

Sustainable choices: Encourage shoppers to choose reusable bags, avoid excessive plastic, and support local or eco-friendly brands.

5. The Impact of Technology on Grocery Stores:

Self-checkouts and automation: How technology is making the grocery shopping experience faster and more efficient.

Online shopping and delivery services: Discuss how services like curbside pickup and home delivery are changing the way people shop.

Smart grocery shopping apps: Highlight apps that help with shopping lists, comparing prices, or finding discounts.

6. The Future of Grocery Stores:

Trends to watch: You can mention growing trends like plant-based products, alternative protein sources, and more environmentally friendly packaging options.

Innovation in grocery stores: Explore how stores are innovating, such as the rise of cashier-less stores (e.g., Amazon Go), or the integration of AI to personalize shopping experiences.

7. Conclusion:

Recap the significance: Summarize why grocery stores are more than just places to buy food.

Call to action: Encourage your readers to be mindful when grocery shopping—whether it’s about supporting local businesses, choosing healthier options, or reducing waste.

Additional Ideas:

Include a personal touch: If you shop at a specific grocery store, share your experiences, favorite sections, or unique finds.

Visuals: Include images of grocery aisles, products, or grocery store trends to make the post more engaging.

Statistics or research: Incorporating facts about grocery shopping behaviors or the impact of grocery stores on the environment can make your blog post more informative.

If you have a specific focus within your blog topic, feel free to share it, and I can help you refine the post further!

[thebreakfastgenie]

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The notion of getting delivery all the time is just something I struggle to wrap my head around. I had too many monetary worries (including a leased car) and penny pinching tendencies to even consider delivery once, never mind all the time.

Yeah same!! And honestly it's just never been normalized for me. Partly that's because I live in the city so if I do get takeout as a treat it's easy to pick it up. And look, I have nothing against splurging on a treat now and then. But there's a notion that's pervasive among a certain class that delivery isn't an occasional treat, but something they should be able to afford regularly. Delivery should cost more than picking up food yourself because you're paying for an addition service. That's someone's labor. Restaurants that offer free delivery subsidize that by raising prices across the board so the cost is less visible. But there were a lot of temporary deals during the pandemic. A lot of grocery stores offered free curbside pickup, for example (and someone getting your groceries for you is also labor). Restaurants offered deals to incentive people to order delivery or curbside pickup takeout because people couldn't dine in, so it was the only way to get any income at all. I think a lot of people didn't start using delivery regularly until 2020, so they think of pandemic-era promotions as normal.

Eating out at all, including takeout from "cheaper" restaurants, has always been considered a luxury that people in situations like yours only do rarely. But very recently that's changed, people have started eating out a lot more, and the expectations have changed along with it. Which in and of itself is neutral and interesting to analyze but I have so little patience for the people who think they're on the cusp of poverty because they can't afford to get delivery multiple times a week.

[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

[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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It appears that possessing cannabis is prohibited by law.

The chemical industry won't be impacted by a federal court's ruling in California. We do not have intentions to legalize cannabis, in contrast to California. In general, it is not a good idea to transport cannabis products across state lines. One of the many problems with this strategy is this. Taking stock of what you've learnt thus far may help you make sense of the situation.

Because I neglected to provide the required paperwork, your company has decided not to provide me with medical marijuana. Can I complete this task?

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[flamecanna6547]

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It would seem that transporting cannabis is against the law.

Despite the federal government's persistent denial of marijuana's legitimacy, California has decided to decriminalize the drug. Same goes for cannabis; just because it's legal in California doesn't mean it's legal here. Moving cannabis items over state boundaries is typically not a smart idea. We think it's a bad strategy for many reasons, including this one. So, go back over all you've learned so far to have a better grasp on what's going on.

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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

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[eringoodyear]

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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.

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