Yes everything sucks at the moment. I waited 45 minutes in taco bell drive through. I watched at least 7 people order and drive off because it was taking too long. Small town walmart full of robot npc slaves filling bags to fill online orders for pick up. The oversized carts they push clog the isles. Everyone I see looks dead inside. The hardest working and most helpful worker at the gas station is an old woman who should be retired and enjoying life. The other employees won't look up from their phones.
I recently visited a Walmart Supercenter for the first time in years, and there were more employees pushing carts and filling orders around than there were customers. Utterly bizarre.
So many young people and Covid-petrified Libs refuse to shop for themselves. Nowadays, they’d rather have someone else do their bidding and fulfill their orders.
I order groceries online for pickup sometimes, but it's for the reasons people are listing in this thread. I don't want to be around people in public anymore. Everyone is rude and mentally unstable.
Legit. I got chewed out at market the other day for something totally stupid for like bumping into someone when it’s super crowded. People are on edge.
When I go to a Walmart, rarely now because I find delivery a time, back, and money saver, there are noticeably fewer people. They don't seem any stranger than ever, though. This weekend at the opposite end of the social world, a nice resort area, things looked pretty normal. I also feel a little polluted after exposure to crowds. My solution is like any allergen exposure, take a shower, wash hair and clothes and nose. Do it after work, not before.
Every time I go by a drive-thru I ask myself what kind of idiots would wait in that line, for that of all things, and if one insists on that, why not get out and go inside, like it's that hard.
You are on here, so presumably not an actual idiot.
We tried to go INTO several fast food locations on a recent road trip, many have their dining rooms closed. Where before it was artificial COVID closures, now it's lack of staff.
Edit: and service was too slow in the lines outside, so we ended up in a greasy spoon, which imo was better and didn't cost much more.
Plus we got to give the "gift" versus taxed tip spiel.
Well in those cases obviously you can't help it, but I'd figure out something else rather than wait half an hour or more in a drive thru.
I did manage to go in a Popeyes once (this would be post-lockdowns but not terribly recent) and when I tried to order they said the dining room is closed - I was like huhwhat and they said "yeah we don't have enough people in today and the last person in accidentally left the door unlocked." So I said ah and went elsewhere.
Edit: my road trips are usually fueled by Coke (rare occasion I'll do non-Mexican), cheese sandwich crackers, and sour Skittles. So I'm clearly not in the "never eat junk food" camp just so we're all clear on that.
Most of the people in the fast food drive-thru these days are delivery drivers for DoorDash and the like. The delivery people are there to pick up several orders at once, that holds up the line, and you can't just go inside and order anymore because the dining rooms are closed. Now as for why people are willing to pay delivery fees for cold McDonalds food, I don't know.
This doesn't make sense - anyone doing DoorDash would be losing money big-time by sitting in line instead of making deliveries. Insane. And, yeah, cold fast food delivered? Not seeing that either. As for dining rooms being closed, I have not seen that much in my area, but yeah possibly.
Any rate, I guess without going and polling them I'm not going to prove anything, but I still say the amount of people regardless of purpose in drive-thru lines means there's a bunch of idiots one way or the other!
So the missus orders Doordash and others annoyingly often, her last three orders have all had issues and one left at our doorstep wasn't even her order. They gave her a refund every time but it's still inconvenient and I have to wonder how much money is being lost to refunds for all of these fuck ups.
Yes everything sucks at the moment. I waited 45 minutes in taco bell drive through. I watched at least 7 people order and drive off because it was taking too long. Small town walmart full of robot npc slaves filling bags to fill online orders for pick up. The oversized carts they push clog the isles. Everyone I see looks dead inside. The hardest working and most helpful worker at the gas station is an old woman who should be retired and enjoying life. The other employees won't look up from their phones.
It will get worse before it gets better.
I recently visited a Walmart Supercenter for the first time in years, and there were more employees pushing carts and filling orders around than there were customers. Utterly bizarre.
So many young people and Covid-petrified Libs refuse to shop for themselves. Nowadays, they’d rather have someone else do their bidding and fulfill their orders.
I order groceries online for pickup sometimes, but it's for the reasons people are listing in this thread. I don't want to be around people in public anymore. Everyone is rude and mentally unstable.
Legit. I got chewed out at market the other day for something totally stupid for like bumping into someone when it’s super crowded. People are on edge.
Fortunately in Florida all the Wal marts are packed with customer vehicles. Just goes to show the difference in mentality from one State to another.
When I go to a Walmart, rarely now because I find delivery a time, back, and money saver, there are noticeably fewer people. They don't seem any stranger than ever, though. This weekend at the opposite end of the social world, a nice resort area, things looked pretty normal. I also feel a little polluted after exposure to crowds. My solution is like any allergen exposure, take a shower, wash hair and clothes and nose. Do it after work, not before.
Yup.
It is a slow degrade of society in general.
Every time I go by a drive-thru I ask myself what kind of idiots would wait in that line, for that of all things, and if one insists on that, why not get out and go inside, like it's that hard.
You are on here, so presumably not an actual idiot.
My brain is having problems right now
We tried to go INTO several fast food locations on a recent road trip, many have their dining rooms closed. Where before it was artificial COVID closures, now it's lack of staff.
Edit: and service was too slow in the lines outside, so we ended up in a greasy spoon, which imo was better and didn't cost much more.
Plus we got to give the "gift" versus taxed tip spiel.
Well in those cases obviously you can't help it, but I'd figure out something else rather than wait half an hour or more in a drive thru.
I did manage to go in a Popeyes once (this would be post-lockdowns but not terribly recent) and when I tried to order they said the dining room is closed - I was like huhwhat and they said "yeah we don't have enough people in today and the last person in accidentally left the door unlocked." So I said ah and went elsewhere.
Edit: my road trips are usually fueled by Coke (rare occasion I'll do non-Mexican), cheese sandwich crackers, and sour Skittles. So I'm clearly not in the "never eat junk food" camp just so we're all clear on that.
Most of the people in the fast food drive-thru these days are delivery drivers for DoorDash and the like. The delivery people are there to pick up several orders at once, that holds up the line, and you can't just go inside and order anymore because the dining rooms are closed. Now as for why people are willing to pay delivery fees for cold McDonalds food, I don't know.
This doesn't make sense - anyone doing DoorDash would be losing money big-time by sitting in line instead of making deliveries. Insane. And, yeah, cold fast food delivered? Not seeing that either. As for dining rooms being closed, I have not seen that much in my area, but yeah possibly.
Any rate, I guess without going and polling them I'm not going to prove anything, but I still say the amount of people regardless of purpose in drive-thru lines means there's a bunch of idiots one way or the other!
So the missus orders Doordash and others annoyingly often, her last three orders have all had issues and one left at our doorstep wasn't even her order. They gave her a refund every time but it's still inconvenient and I have to wonder how much money is being lost to refunds for all of these fuck ups.
The wife wanted me to bring home taco bell. I would have waited longer if I had to.
"and if one insists on that, why not get out and go inside, like it's that hard"
Edit: is she vaccinated too?
Dining area closes at 10pm. Drive through or nothing at midnight. It's a guilty pleasure not a staple of our diet. All pure bloods in this house.
Fuck off now.