It's traditional that a person should be married and live their life partnered and raising children. DO YOU FEEL PRESSURE BECAUSE OF YOUR RELIGION TO BE MARRIED or TO BE MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN?
Sister here. I'd like to hear from you!
10/4/21
MAJOR GROCERY STORE VONS DISCRIMATES AGAINST THE TRADITIONAL SHOPPER - WHY WOULD I ORDER A DELIVERY WHEN I SHOP FOR SMALL AMOUNTS OF FOOD AS NEEDED?
A while back, though I hated to do it, I signed up for Von's online deals. The idea here is that the store is watching what you buy and so has a link between your grocery purchases, your Von's card that is your phone number and an e-mail address. Yes I hate all that. I THINK IT IS THE LAW THAT ALL CUSTOMERS ARE TO RECIEVE THE LOWEST ADVERTISED PRICE but like anyone else, I don't feel like calling a manager to check out of tangling with a cashier whose fault it is not.
But I did it and it seemed amazing to me that some of the thing I purchased in the past were significantly lower in price just because I went into the store website and clicked on those items. Of course expiration dates, as with traditional paper coupons, give you the feeling that you have to hurry into the store where you are likely to purchase other items as well.
However, I recently realized that there were MORE PRODUCTS WITH DISCOUNTS THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED FOR IN PERSON SHOPPERS if you ordered in advance to be picked up or delivered. I guess the store is following in the steps of the Big Box stores and this might significantly change the situation with employees - specifically Union Employees.
I'm one of those people WHO REFUSES TO DO THE LABOR OF AN Employee. People do it without realizing they are helping to eliminate jobs. The job of a cashier is a hard one, ongoing movement, standing on one's feet for hours, and dealing with hundreds of people each day, some who are not nice and who change their mind about what they want to purchase. However, UNION JOBS are the jobs that people can keep all their lives, as they age, and gain a decent retirement. With this drive to have someone at the store pull items from shelves and deliver or send to pick up, I'm wondering what the future of cashiering will be.
Like many people who EAT FOR ONE, I'm a person who does not like to stock up. I usually do not need gallons of ice cream or yogurt, I don't buy for a family and I don't want coupons that are for buying more than one of anything or bulk purchases. To eat a variety of foods and small meals I cook for myself, I will buy what I need very close to when I need it.
Another aspect of this whole delivery system is the ASSUMPTION THAT SOMEONE IS HOME and not working or at play when boxes of food arrive. I have ordered on line only 3 times in my life and one of those times was a library book I was replacing because I lost the original and the other two times were during Covid lock downs when it was not advisable to go out. NMNK people are usually active people into their senior years. but I suppose this is convenient for some.
It irked me as I stood in line knowing that if I were not shopping in person, my overall grocery bill would be less.
In my area only the rich seem to avoid stores that used to be "Dollar" stores to buy grocery basics - some of which is imported from China. Due to the economic conditions of the world which currently include dozens of ships containing imports from China waiting docking and unloading, there is word of shortages all along the line. I do worry about food shortages.
Economics makes people search for deals on food, but I say, if you are an NMNK, protest the discrimination when it comes to stores with the deals that don't seem to include a model for the NMNK buyer.
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