Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 6 days ago:
In an ideal world, this would be hailed as one of the best things for society in general.
Unfortunately, the automation doesn’t benefit anyone except for a very few people who stand to profit from it.
Literally the opposite of what humanity should be doing with technology.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Of every device, individually from what I just had to experience.
It should always be opt in.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Doing your job at a high standard is a problem? Who makes this garbage up?
- Comment on Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) 3 weeks ago:
I’m curious to know how many of those men wanted kids?
We all know that men don’t have a say in whether a pregnancy will continue, so I can see at least one explanation that could easily account for the tension in those families, and the observation you’ve had.
Also keeping mind that this was in family court, not the average family.
I know some spectacular fathers who put in way more effort then their wives. Don’t throw all men under a bus.
- Comment on I shaved for the first time in a while so I could update a profile picture and my chin looks like this. 3 weeks ago:
The Phillip OneBlade is especially good if your skin is sensitive to razors. It doesn’t give a “razor clean” shave, but that’s the point.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 1 month ago:
Recipe websites are something else, eh?
Most have a 20 page story until you get to the actual recipe. Like, I don’t give a damn about your life story, I just want to bake some muffins. 😂
OP, of you have a “Reading mode” on your phone’s browser, it’ll cut out a lot of extras and just give you the text.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Your food gets taxed?
I should clarify, junk food is taxed. Produce and real food isn’t. LOL
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
when you clearly have idea about business
I’ve had a small business for 20 years, and worked in other small business’ for longer. I’m also keenly aware of my country’s grocery store industry, as they’ve quite literally being caught in price-fixing schemes, expiry-label swapping scams, and price gouging.
This little extra fee scam is just one more thing.
I appreciate your input, but we really do have two different perspectives on this.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
But a grocery store? They’re not set up for this thing.
Since the pandemic (4 years), nearly every grocery store is now set up to handle online ordering, picking, and either shipping or on-site pickup. Even small stores that never had online ordering had to adapt to offer it in order to stay relevant.
But do you think these retail stores are inundated with online orders? Even in a large store like Walmart, I’m often the only person at the pick-up spot, even when their pick-up slot is “full” for that hour.
The implementation for these stores to set up the actual website and backend for online ordering was a much larger task, and there were never any extra fees associated with them doing that; modernizing their business does have a cost, but it also generates more revenue (and profits) at the same time.
And being they’re a few cities over
What does being a few cities over have to do with their cost of doing business? They are in a more populated area, and have a chain of stores, owned by the largest grocery company in the country. The fact that their online shop brings them business they’d never have otherwise, customers are doing them a favour by ordering online.
Shipping costs, which would apply to local and out of town customers, would only differ in the time it takes to make the delivery.
it’s not incredibly unreasonable to have to pay for someone to pick it, consume a box, consume filler material, consume tape, print a label, and then mail it.
I order stuff online all the time. Regardless of whether a place has a storefront or not, I’ve never seen excessive fees like this one. Boxes? Tape? Labels? Literally the cost of running a business, just like printing on paper receipts at a checkout or providing bags or installing security systems…
I can only accept your argument if you can show that companies who aren’t charging extra fees would be losing money through their online ordering system.
The fact is, grocery stores in Canada, despite offering online order since at least the pandemic, are constantly setting profit records. In the US, online grocery store market has grown significantly and is a key driver in the industry’s growth.
We are not small retail businesses who are asking for these extra fees, so your argument makes even less sense.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Walmart Canada has never had a handling fee or asked for tips. They offer some subscription thing if you want free shipping on everything, but that’s obviously extra.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
To play devil’s advocate:
If they are hiring specifically for picking online orders, they would lose money by not having as many online orders, right?
Well, adding these extra fees is a surefire way to stop or slow people from ordering anything.
Psychologically, someone would be more willing to pay for an item that’s $15 with free shipping, than one that’s $10 + $5 shipping.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Handling fee is revenue collected by the store. Now that they have a big pool of revenue, they pay their employees from it (the minimum wage you referred to). Read that in context of the next two paragraphs.
WRT cashiers and stockers that was part of the existing business model. The general profit from groceries covered those expenses.
The general profit from groceries does not cover the expense of a different business model of hiring additional employees whose sole job would be to walk around filling orders. Those additional jobs require additional revenue, which the store gets from handling fee.
Are you implying that stores which are NOT charging a handling fee are losing money?
Regardless of whether they have to hire extra staff to pick items, or to develop a website for online ordering, or to deliver these items in their own vehicles, that’s an expense they bulk into the cost of running their business. They would then set prices for the goods they sell based on those expenses + whatever markup they choose.
I will point out that grocery stores have been making a record profit since COVID, and a big part of that is because of online ordering (and price-gouging🤫). We’re talking companies who don’t charge a handling fee, and some who offer free shipping.
At the end of the day, charging a handling fee in excess of the shipping fee, then asking for a tip, is mildly infuriating.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
i mean you’re paying for convenience.
Out of curiosity, does Amazon charge a handling fee or ask you to tip the picker? Walmart? Sporting good stores? Pet food stores? Absolutely not.
There are a dozen grocery stores in my area, and the most that any of them charge for a “handling fee” is $1. None ask for tips, and actually ask not to tip.
I’m not arguing about shipping costs. But a tip on top of a handling fee is mildly infuriating.
It would be way more convenient for me to walk to the store and buy this item, but these guys are a few cities over. I’m happy to pay for shipping, but everything else is a cash grab.
- Comment on Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows 1 month ago:
…but you’re pretty sure whomever that is, it’s not the cops.
Hmm, no. Obviously, they admit to shooting her.
The question is, was it an accident? Negligence? or premeditated? Consequences should follow once that’s been determined.
In the context of a shootout with someone in the vehicle she came from (initially reported as possibly her), and with either mistaken identity or reason to believe she may have been armed, it’s going to be hard to say that they intentionally caused her death.
- Comment on Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows 1 month ago:
Of course, you can’t trust everyone. There were like 50 people there, including EMTs who could vouch. The video we saw was highly compressed and censored, so it’s hard to see what she was wearing “at ground level”.
That said, this happened nearly two years ago. Original reports stated that she was wearing BODY ARMOR, and may have been a “participant” in shooting at the officers during the pursuit.
I’m not going to investigate this. It was tragic, and I hope justice is served to whomever it needs to be.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
It is. Via the handling fee.
No, they get at least minimum wage. The handling fee is an added fee that goes to the company. Only the tip goes “100%” to the employee, as it states.
If the store hires 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.
Nonsense. The store pays cashiers, too, and they don’t charge a cashier fee. Or a stocking clerk fee.
To prove it even further, they don’t offer a discount when using self-checkout.
When I worked in a grocery store, we wouldn’t dream of asking for an additional fee or tip, even when we bagged and walked out someone’s groceries to their car. It was part of the job we were being paid to do.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Says it in the screenshot: T&T
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Food isn’t taxed. Shipping would be.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Walmart’s not going to be a good model
It was an example. Other grocery stores have the same pricing structure, but I have less experience with them.
If you’re asking someone to collect your groceries, maybe pay them to do so.
I don’t get this. They already get paid to do this, just like a stock clerk or cashier.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
It would be. They charge more for a regular courier.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
It’s $7 more than other stores in my area. And the only grocery store I’ve ever heard of that asks for tips.
FWIW, Walmart doesn’t have a fee for pickup orders and free shipping for orders over $35. They also don’t accept tips.
As a consumer, fees upon fees upon tips just seems wrong. It discourages business, IMO.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month 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?
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Not groceries, just a single item, which I can’t find locally.
All other grocery stores that you can order online from in the area are either zero handling fee or a dollar… and they don’t accept tips. Shipping, I’m not sure. It ranges from a few dollars to free from what I see.
Handling fee + shipping + tip seems excessive.
- Comment on Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows 1 month ago:
Quite literally in the article:
“Savannah was wearing tactical gear and a helmet as she walked toward a deputy, the Sheriff’s Department said.”
Maybe the father was using her as a decoy.
- Comment on Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows 1 month ago:
Really? I do think there should be accountability and consequences.
What degree of consequences depends, I guess, on how much animosity one might have towards law enforcement. I don’t think that’s a very balanced way of looking at things.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
YSK, the top five have over 150 billion to their name… each. The top guy has over 230 billion.
The top 50 combined have multiple trillions, and growing.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
That being said I’m not physically unable or too lazy to go to the grocery store.
These guys are over 50km away. If the weather was nicer, I’d probably bike there.
But I’m happy to pay shipping for something I can’t get locally. I haven’t placed the order as the tip stopped me cold.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
This one is unfortunately over 50km away and sells ethic food that I can’t get locally.
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month 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!
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
That actually explains a lot!