Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering.

someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly it’s not a small job to go up and down the aisles and collect everything.

  I would expect that their pay covers the work, and if that, then the “handling fee” should.

  If not, then their damn employer needs to step up!

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I expect the subtotal is the actual price of groceries, handling fee is the cost of the employee collecting them, mailing is mailing.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … handling fee is the cost of the employee collecting them…

      The cost to pay them, or as a “convenience fee” for the customer? Because there are no handling fees at any other grocery stores, except for a $1 from one place.

      And their pay should come from their employer.

      And of this is being delivered, do I tip the driver, too? When is it too much?

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      • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Other chains might be trying it without charging yet. Or the orders aren’t so high yet. Who knows.

        And their pay should come from their employer.

        …It is. Via the handling fee. Let’s put it this way: If the store is employing people whose sole job is to walk up and down the aisles filling orders, the store has to get money to pay those people. The store gets that money by charging people the handling fee.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Especially since you don’t know the quality of the picking

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