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Over the past few years, many cities have seen the arrival of services that promise to delivery groceries as quickly as possible. These services offer a level of convenience and laziness that have never been seen before, but they bring with them some problems. Can groceries be delivered TOO quickly?
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Chapters
0:00 Pre-roll
0:07 Introduction
0:45 What is "flash" delivery?
1:28 How do they do it?
2:33 Can't you just walk to buy groceries?
3:28 Who uses it?
4:01 What's the downside?
6:42 VCs and dumb money
8:26 Worker exploitation & tech
10:41 Do we REALLY need this?
11:28 Where we are today & conclusion
12:10 Nebula spot & Patreon Shout-ou
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In Spain, they ended the practice of classifying the workers as "independent contractors" through a High Court decision. The companies tried to fight it, but so far the courts have upheld the decision. If the drivers get their orders through an app, they are workers of that company. That should be the absolute minimum of worker protection.
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Watching this as an American is so crazy, people being able to strike, regulators actually protecting workers.
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This recalls memories of Foodora leaving Canada in 2020 after Ontario ruled its workers were employees. Someone close to me worked for them in another province at that time, and they were forced out of work because of Foodora's withdrawal. The practice of abandoning a market as soon as labour rights are granted is slimy af, and I appreciate that you're calling it out!
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as someone with a physical disability i love having something like gopuff here (seattle WA) but the only times i truly need something that fast is if im acutely ill and in that case its been fantastic. that said i have zero problem paying a lot for delivery fees. id much rather pay that extra amount and have the worker treated well. wonderful video as always and its super interesting seeing it be such a big thing in europe.
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The idea you can get actual groceries from a convenience store, however limited the selection, sounds awesome. In the US you can only get candy, jerky, beer, soda or lotto stratchers from convenience stores. If you're really lucky, they'll have hot dogs and pizza under a heat lamp.
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It's crazy that we live in a world where 1-hour delivery is too inconvenient
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I used to work at Dominos as a delivery driver, while I was driving at the speed limit my coworker delivery driver blew past me then I blew past him as the police was writing him a ticket for speeding. I never listen to any employer that tells you to break the law. If you are driving, you are the responsible one.
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One thing to mention. Doing delivery on a bike is way more fun than something with a car. You are in open air, doing some exercise and you have more contact.
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I'm very glad you included disabilities here, my girlfriend is disabled and chronically ill and needs delivery for just about everything (long-distance relationship until I can move in, so I can't pick up groceries for her just yet), so I definitely see value in same-day delivery.
However I agree, we don't need groceries delivered in minutes, especially from companies that create safety risks because of time pressure, taking up space that could be used for stores for local residents, and exploits their workers.
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I was raised in an era (1950's) in the U.S. My grandfather owned and operated a neighborhood grocery store, about 30 steps out the back door of our house. At the time most, if not all neighborhoods had a "Mom and Pop" grocery. We rarely had to visit a "chain" grocery. My gramp's store was almost always busy and was especially more so after the local school let out for the day. The store was jam-packed with teenagers buying sodapop and other bits of junk food. That's another story though. We actually had neighbors who couldn't get out who needed groceries and my brother and I would deliver on our bikes. Not in 10 minutes or less though. Those were simpler times!
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Never thought I'd ever use these services. But recently, I had surgery and struggled with walking, so having someone deliver medication to me was a HUGE help.
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I hear that friends like the fast delivery in case they have company coming over unannounced... One of the things I enjoy about living in the Netherlands is that I (almost) always have 10 minute grocery delivery - my 10-year-old can run to the grocery store in 3 minutes, grab whatever I missed plus whatever he enjoys, pay by bank card and run back to the house :)
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I am currently (hopefully temporarily) disabled. Regular, 'slow' grocery deliveries are more than good enough. Of course sometimes I want things that I didn't think of a few days earlier and in that case flash deliveries are a nice convenience, one that I certainly wouldn't mind paying a little extra for, but even then an hour or two is fine. And I haven't tried it, but I think Uber Eats and alike already offer those services using normal grocery stores.
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There was also one that opened shop in Toronto earlier this year - Ninja Delivery. It was near King & Bathurst and marketed as 10 minute delivery convenience store (also with no public entrance). It lasted a few months before it closed down.
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I've used Flink a few times, once when I was ill and a few times where I just ran out of time to grocery shop. I don't need delivery in 10 minutes. I'd be perfectly happy with delivery in 30 minutes or even an hour. But I'm guessing it's more profitable for the company to squeeze as many trips into an hour as possible...
Sidenote, some companies like CoolBlue offer 'optimized delivery', allowing you to choose to receive a package later, but in a more optimized delivery. That way they don't have to deliver all over the place every day, but they can collect packages headed in the same direction. This cuts down massively on emissions. I wish more companies offered that.
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I'm old enough to remember when grocery shops and butchers had delivery boys with special bikes with big baskets. The deliveries were always after 4pm, that was when the boys finished school and could start work.
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I have a disability. These delivery services hugely improved my quality of life and gave me independence that I never had before.
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I worked for one of these services about a year ago, we only had 1 location so some trips took 20 minutes to complete as they were on the opposite side of the city. Right before I left the company changed it wages based on how many deliveries were done in 1 hour, but hitting 6 orders in 1 hours is really hard. As you said in the video, mainly students and families ordered.
The heavy orders were not really cared about, 1 order I drove I had 4 bottles of still water in my backpack + some snacks. Most evenings I had back pain from the heavy loads on my back
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I used to work for gorillas in Germany. They straight-up broke labour and workplace laws constantly. But of course, the decision-makers were cycled out often enough that there was never anyone directly responsible. it was very frustrating to work there
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