Except for me. I type fast and have a lot to say.
Last week when I went to Giant for curbside there was someone standing in a pickup parking spot with their “grandma cart”
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for pickup. I wish I had a picture but it seemed intrusive. I suspect the bigger issue is not whether you choose to own a car but whether the demographic for that store is car-based (thus parking lots and marked spaces) or walk-up (no parking and perhaps limited sidewalk space). The real challenge of being carless (is that a word?) is that it forces more frequent smaller shopping trips.
Maybe. Following the media reporting and looking at alternatives there seem to be two models. One is third party pickers, mostly focused on delivery but also supporting curbside. Food Lion who I am using for an upcoming delivery has contracted out all their curbside and delivery to Instacart. The other model is using grocery employees. Giant Food, our regular grocery, does this and the pickers are also the stockers; they know EXACTLY where everything is. Giant by the way had a leg up as their Peapod delivery subsidiary has been around for years. They had processes and just (ha! just!) had to scale up.
Sure. One of my Davisms is that I don’t trust anyone, including myself. I’m open to questioning my own opinions and conclusions. We have a TJ here in Annapolis near the mall. I don’t mind heading up in your direction to Gambrills or Odenton or Hanover. I’d just as soon not slog to Towson. grin
Interesting. I don’t believe one-way aisles were ever mandated here. They seemed like a good idea to the stores and were adopted. The last time I was actually in a store all the inconvenient displays in the aisles were gone also. That is certainly a net plus. I suspect the stores are finding more impulse buying from one-way aisles.
California on the whole seems to be making odd choices at government and institutional levels. “Lockdowns” that aren’t actually lockdowns come to mind. Forget enforcement - no reports I’ve seen of any enforcement at all in California. ICU margins in California urban areas seem to be looking pretty grim. One-way aisles in the grocery won’t fix that alone of course. Y’all need to get people to STFH.
