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Interesting reading the article. Would be good to see the complete ACCC report.

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Home delivery services are a recent offering. What did these people do before about 5 years ago?

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

If they are house-bound, organise with a local taxi driver to get to the shop and get some things for them.

If they are mostly-mobile, same thing, but organise a drop off and pickup time and get a hand with getting groceries into the house and up stairs, etc.

A lot of the older "career" drivers will happily do regular stuff like this. Especially during the middle of the day in suburbia when it's pretty quiet. Beats sitting at a taxi rank reading the paper.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The customers or the supermarkets?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I meant customers, but Dave has already answered.