Acquiring Food During a Pandemic

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Third, I actually tried out instacart. It is certainly a functional service, I do indeed have groceries, but frankly, it's didn't impress. Instacard does not provide the shoppers any equipment of any sort for shopping, the result is, the person delivering my order needed me to come down and help him with the twenty some bags of groceries, because apparently to instacart, providing a CART would be too much overhead for them to incur in logistics. But more generally, the "personal shopping" experience is just not something I enjoy or find valuable in anyway. I suspect some people disagree, but to me, it's a negative, and the concept of fulfilling a delivery order from grocery stores is just stupid in general, it would be far more efficient (read: cheaper, or, you could pay people a reasonable wage instead) to fulfill orders from a fulfillment centre designed for it.

Regardless, there is plenty more pandemic to try out all the different options we have available.

So NZ is not generally ahead of the curve on these things but there is an eStore that they opened recently. There were some neighbour complaints about noise. Here's a press release from Countdown about it.

https://www.countdown.co.nz/news-and-med...ing-demand

Countdown also closed one of the metro stores around here to redeploy staff to meet online shopping demand (which exceeds supply).