Posted on 05/26/2019 12:18:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At 6:30 a.m., four of five Gordon family members are roaming around their suburban Sacramento house — if you count only the humans. There are also four dogs, a bunny, a tortoise, chickens, ducks, goats and a not-so-miniature miniature pig named Squiggy.
Hilary Gordon is discussing the day's schedule with her husband in the middle of wrapping a breakfast sandwich for their 14-year-old, checking on cereal for their 17-year-old and staring down their 11-year-old, who just realized he forgot to finish today's math homework.
Having time like this with her family is a major reason that Gordon, 47, works as a shopper for the grocery delivery app Instacart in a suburb of Sacramento, Calif. "I find it fun. It gives me something to do. I'm not out spending money. And I love the flexibility," she says.
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What did I win?
I use Instacart and find that the best shoppers are these women, who have families of their own, and shop for their customers as if they were shopping for their families. Not so single men, millennials or immigrants.
I bet NPR is concerned that these “workers” are not licensed, not regulated, and not members of any labor union.
What?
Beer & steaks is not good enough?
Way back when I was in college taking business classes, we were modelling startup companies for a class assignment. One of the students did his own company that he started, a grocery delivery company. He did not charge extra for the service, the goods were the same price as if the customer went to the store. So how he made his money was being extremely good at using coupons, he would pocket the difference of using coupons. He actually made good money at it.
Is it Trump’s fault that they are doing this type of job?
When I was single I shopped and ate great.
Take your stereotypes and hit the road! :)
But then again, All the Italian guys I know when we were single cooked and ate great.
So what’s wrong with that? My husband didn’t make a lot of money, so I took whatever I could get that would allow me to be near the kids or at home when they got there. I worked as a teachers aide in my daughter’s school, and then I cleaned houses during the day when the kids got older. I didn’t want to be away when they got home.
I think you are correct. Says a lot about them.
I’m stuck in a wheelchair at home with a broken leg. Instacart has been a godsend. My deliverers have been both men and women. They all tell me how much they enjoy the job.
Kinda like Grub Hub. Order your food and it’s delivered.
I remember back in the early 2000s, hearing a big story on NPR about how lots of people were starting to use the internet to make telephone calls, about how this was unregulated and was in violation of federal regulations controlling point-to-point communications outside the telephone system.
The story seemed to be aimed directly at the regulatory bureaucrats in DC. It pointed out how various federal excise taxes were not being collected on calls of this type, and how laws pertaining to interstate commerce were being flouted by people who used the internet in this way.
NPR is itself heavily unionized. It also get (or used to get) contributions from major labor unions.
We’re both amputees, so yeah.
I hate the word “worker”.
A Communist word.
I used Grubhub.com while I was hobbling on crutches.
A Communist word.
NPR uses that word all the time, or used to anyway.
The word appears 19 times in the story at the link (see top of page).
I make it a point to never use that word if possible.
I have groceries delivered from Smart & Final which uses Instacart. The delivery people are always super nice. Thursday Gina delivered my groceries. Because I stocked up on toilet tissue and charcoal briquettes she brought her husband along to help. Lol
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