Just Eat

[skinnyman]

LukeBrown66 said:

Lol

"My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"

I am literally speechless.

Nope, I'm with this guy. I value my time, and covid/lockdowns has only highlighted the value of time to many people. I used to wash my car myself, now a mobile valeter comes round. Supermarket shopping is now done via delivery. We've recently started Hellofresh, again as it saves times and is more convenient.

I will happily pay money for convenience.

[Dr Jekyll]

The non-lazy approach to getting a snack.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/...

[number2]

Dr Jekyll said:

The non-lazy approach to getting a snack.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/...

I just don't understand why all people don't do this. I mean, how lazy can people be?! Put some effort in people!

[C70R]

LukeBrown66 said:

Lol

"My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"

I am literally speechless.

>£350m a week in online grocery shopping over the last year in the UK says that you're wrong to be "speechless".

https://www.statista.com/statistics/622509/value-o...

Even before COVID it was approaching £1bn a month and had grown consistently.

It seems that quite a lot of people value their time in the evenings and on weekends more highly than spending it visiting a supermarket.

In fact, before COVID that "quite a lot of people" was around 1-in-3 people: https://www.statista.com/statistics/700676/share-o...

I find it's better to try and be objective about these things, rather than assuming that your own values are representative of everyone.

(Said as someone who still shops at the supermarket)

[RobbieTheTruth]

skinnyman said:

LukeBrown66 said:

Lol

"My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"

I am literally speechless.

Nope, I'm with this guy. I value my time, and covid/lockdowns has only highlighted the value of time to many people. I used to wash my car myself, now a mobile valeter comes round. Supermarket shopping is now done via delivery. We've recently started Hellofresh, again as it saves times and is more convenient.

I will happily pay money for convenience.

Agreed.

While this guy is 'literally speechless', the rest of the population is spending over a billion a month on online shopping, leaving us free to do more enjoyable things with our time and massively cutting down cars on the roas by letting one big delivery van deliver to mulltiple addresses.

[Condi]

RobbieTheTruth said:

Agreed.

While this guy is 'literally speechless', the rest of the population is spending over a billion a month on online shopping, leaving us free to do more enjoyable things with our time and massively cutting down cars on the roas by letting one big delivery van deliver to mulltiple addresses.

Such as what? What is it you do with that extra hour a week?


And, more importantly, how do you make an impulse purchase of a disk grinder, ladder, and set of Harry Potter books if you never go to the isle of dreams in Aldi or Lidl?!

[SpeckledJim]

Condi said:

RobbieTheTruth said:

Agreed.

While this guy is 'literally speechless', the rest of the population is spending over a billion a month on online shopping, leaving us free to do more enjoyable things with our time and massively cutting down cars on the roas by letting one big delivery van deliver to mulltiple addresses.

Such as what? What is it you do with that extra hour a week?


And, more importantly, how do you make an impulse purchase of a disk grinder, ladder, and set of Harry Potter books if you never go to the isle of dreams in Aldi or Lidl?!

Some of these guys must be blithely running their homes with stocks of fewer than four picture-hanging kits.

[Zoon]

SpeckledJim said:

Some of these guys must be blithely running their homes with stocks of fewer than four picture-hanging kits.

Amateurs

[RobbieTheTruth]

Condi said:

RobbieTheTruth said:

Agreed.

While this guy is 'literally speechless', the rest of the population is spending over a billion a month on online shopping, leaving us free to do more enjoyable things with our time and massively cutting down cars on the roas by letting one big delivery van deliver to mulltiple addresses.

Such as what? What is it you do with that extra hour a week?


And, more importantly, how do you make an impulse purchase of a disk grinder, ladder, and set of Harry Potter books if you never go to the isle of dreams in Aldi or Lidl?!

It's not just the extra hour is it - there are various things we all do now, where services and technology allow convenience.

And you can do whatever you want with the extra hour. Sunbathe, play with the kids, go to the gym.

Don't get me wrong, I like a trip to the supermarket and I love seeing new products and trying new things. My gripe is someone saying they are 'literally speechless' at online shopping when it is so easy and popular.

If someone where to say, advertise a job on MyBuilder, and pay a handyman to do their shopping, I'd possibly be speechless. Someone doing their own shopping online didn't deserve such a bizarre overreaction!

Edited by RobbieTheTruth on Tuesday 15th June 10:50

[Cotty]

RobbieTheTruth said:

Don't get me wrong, I like a trip to the supermarket and I love seeing new products and trying new things.

Its probably about time I went for a walk around the supermarket again, just to have a look at things and see if there is anything new that I have missed from surfing the website.

[okgo]

LukeBrown66 said:

Lol

"My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"

I am literally speechless.

Surely you're not projecting your own priorities onto the rest of us AGAIN?

I'm going to say from your posts elsewhere that you're single, no kids, live somewhere where food delivery isn't really a thing and have plenty of free time. Please tell me what you have in common with me and why your opinion of what I should do is worth listening to?

[Bacon Is Proof]

I'd be interested to know how many hours a week the "my time is too valuable to not be lazy" crowd work.
I'm glad I have enough time on my hands to not have to use just eat.

[LukeBrown66]

You are right on all of those things, but why does that mean you have the right to presume anything about me or anyone else?

I presume you are very well paid, have numerous cars, live in the middle of nowhere in a house worth a lot, have more than one kid a demanding life and feel you are more important than me?

Yet also feel it's OK to put your valuable time before just about anything else in life?

Before we go off track, this was simply a post based on a radio report, I found it staggering at what was said, and have said enough to end this conversation here, and my input into it.

[Driver101]

Personally I don't find supermarket home shopping convenient. It takes me longer to build my shopping list online than it takes to run to the supermarket at get back home.

I don't think waiting in the house for a few hours for my time slot is convenient either. I don't want to plan my day around being tied to the house.

[okgo]

LukeBrown66 said:

You are right on all of those things, but why does that mean you have the right to presume anything about me or anyone else?

I presume you are very well paid, have numerous cars, live in the middle of nowhere in a house worth a lot, have more than one kid a demanding life and feel you are more important than me?

Yet also feel it's OK to put your valuable time before just about anything else in life?

Before we go off track, this was simply a post based on a radio report, I found it staggering at what was said, and have said enough to end this conversation here, and my input into it.

Because you have made a number of assumptions about others and called us lazy and scoffed at someone else who has said their time is too valuable (while knowing nothing of their situation), so why can't I ask what on earth you know about how other people in different situations choose to live?

I don't know what you class as very well paid, live in London and have a busy job at times and a young child, ergo I will pay people to do things I don't want or have time to do, which is why I have a cleaner, someone to do the garden and will use deliveroo (because I can't physically leave the house if my wife is out and I want a takeaway because my son is asleep) and as I said, there are quite literally hundreds of takeaways on my doorstep and it is not feasible to ring round them/google all of them to see their menus.

That doesn't make me more important than you. But it does give me the ability to give the other side of the argument. Pretty much all of us have been you (maybe save for the location you live in) in terms of having spare time, being single etc etc, you haven't yet been me, and I dare say your opinion of such things may change if you suddenly had much less free time and more free money.

Re being tied to the house and taking time to craft an online shop, my car is outside the house, by the time I've got in and driven to the end of the road I could have tweaked last weeks shop and had it ordered (it takes perhaps 30 mins in the first instance, but obviously it takes at least that every week or more if you're going there). I also am sure they offer a pretty tight time slot, which given most people work from home these days isn't difficult to work with.

[Bacon Is Proof]

Just spent about four seconds googling the phone number of this evening's potential curry provider, having used Just Eat to browse their menu. Reckon it might take me an extra minute to call it in.
And I might not even get takeaway tonight! That's how much time I have on my hands!
Think I might walk to the pub and have a lovely pint in the sun.
So long suckers!
Enjoy your rat-race!

[Red9zero]

Silverage said:

The Chinese takeaway in our village has never accepted card payments and has never been on JE. Before Covid came along I didn’t really think about the reasons for this, but they are fairly obvious. Up pops Covid and after lockdown one is dialled back they re-open with the usual screens, masks, sanitiser, only 2 customers in the place at any one time etc. etc., but they still expect everyone to be pushing notes and coins back and forth.

At this stage I realised they valued the “advantages” to them of all sales being in cash over everything else and I’ve not used them since.

Sounds like the one in our village. It was OK pre
Covid as there was a cashpoint at the Post Office next door, but that has gone now and they still don't take card and they don't deliver either. Luckily the pizza place takes card and delivers, so a quick call and my 14" meat feast is on its way.

[hyphen]

Bacon Is Proof said:

Just spent about four seconds googling the phone number of this evening's potential curry provider, having used Just Eat to browse their menu. Reckon it might take me an extra minute to call it in.
And I might not even get takeaway tonight! That's how much time I have on my hands!
Think I might walk to the pub and have a lovely pint in the sun.
So long suckers!
Enjoy your rat-race!

Ive developed a new routine; I don't call up. Instead I walk down to order, they say 10-30 minutes depending on the place, and I go for a decent walk around the area and burn off 100 of the 700 calories I am about to take in, and work up an appetite.

I also think it tastes better if you go and pick it up. The interaction and smells of the place add to it.

[Driver101]

hyphen said:

Bacon Is Proof said:

Just spent about four seconds googling the phone number of this evening's potential curry provider, having used Just Eat to browse their menu. Reckon it might take me an extra minute to call it in.
And I might not even get takeaway tonight! That's how much time I have on my hands!
Think I might walk to the pub and have a lovely pint in the sun.
So long suckers!
Enjoy your rat-race!

Ive developed a new routine; I don't call up. Instead I walk down to order, they say 10-30 minutes depending on the place, and I go for a decent walk around the area and burn off 100 of the 700 calories I am about to take in, and work up an appetite.

I also think it tastes better if you go and pick it up. The interaction and smells of the place add to it.

700 calories? Is it a takeaway salad bar?

[okgo]

I used to phone my kebab order in from Richmond Park on the bike ride home and as I passed the kebaby at the end of my road I swung in on a full race bike in Lycra to collect. They always laughed.