Should I also tip the delivery driver, and the person who made the product?
Fuck off with the tipping bullshit already.
Pay your damn staff properly and stop trying to guilt your customers into subsidizing your cheapness.
Agreed. But until we actually hold these giant companies accountable, please don't take it out on the worker by stiffing them. If you don't want to pay the fees, don't use that service, and tell them that.
until we actually hold these giant companies accountable
Got any practical method of doing that?
Nope, I'm just screaming into the void.
I don't think $7 is a particularly hefty fee. If it's a grocery store they typically aren't paying employees to do shop for you, it's an extra service for an extra charge. I think I pay $10 per order from my local grocery.
It's $7 more than other stores in my area. And the only grocery store I've ever heard of that asks for tips.
FWIW, Walmart doesn't have a fee for pickup orders and free shipping for orders over $35. They also don't accept tips.
As a consumer, fees upon fees upon tips just seems wrong. It discourages business, IMO.
Walmart's not going to be a good model, there, as while the chance of abuse being the cause might not be 100%, it hangs out near enough 100 to know more than a few intimate things about it.
If you're asking someone to collect your groceries, maybe pay them to do so. Tips are broken as a concept, so whatever there.
typically aren’t paying employees to do shop for you
The employees are paid hourly to be at work and do what they're told, basically. It's not like asking an employee to pick groceries for an order costs the company extra. The employee is already being paid to be there whether or not they pick your order.
The fee is being charged because they know you will pay it, not because it's an extra cost.
I think they’ve generally started hiring people to only handle online orders, or that’s how it appears at my local stores.
i don't know about this place but i know with a lot of other delivery options the "fee" does not go to the employees, it's just extra money because they can
T&T is a Loblaws chain. It's wholly unsurprising that they'd be this scummy
that's a low blow, Loblaws
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That actually explains a lot!
are we still tipping our landlords?
Tipping them upside down?
I have just stopped tipping....
I was generous during covid to those actually working, 30% usually. Now nobody does a damn thing but have their hand out... Companies need to step us, not us.
That being said I'm not physically unable or too lazy to go to the grocery store.
Honestly it's not a small job to go up and down the aisles and collect everything.
Though tipping groceries seems odd.
Honestly it's not a small job to go up and down the aisles and collect everything.
I would expect that their pay covers the work, and if that, then the "handling fee" should.
If not, then their damn employer needs to step up!
I expect the subtotal is the actual price of groceries, handling fee is the cost of the employee collecting them, mailing is mailing.
... handling fee is the cost of the employee collecting them...
The cost to pay them, or as a "convenience fee" for the customer? Because there are no handling fees at any other grocery stores, except for a $1 from one place.
And their pay should come from their employer.
And of this is being delivered, do I tip the driver, too? When is it too much?
Especially since you don't know the quality of the picking
Every $ you tip is one $ more that that fucker Galen doesn't have to pay his employees.
i mean you're paying for convenience. if you didn't order online and have it delivered you'd be paying for gas and transport to and from.
god this is such an american reaction lol, i bike to the stores!
Closest i've ever gotten to driving to a store is taking the bus to buy an air fryer.
Is $1.43 the complete tax? If so — how is your government financed? All countries I know of add a VAT of ~ 20 %.
Food isn't taxed. Shipping would be.
Not all items are taxable. An apple isn't, but a box of cookies is. It depends on what OP bought
Depends on your country. Some just have lower tax rates depending on the item.
"Mail delivery fee" implies this order will be sent via post.
Fuck em.
It would be. They charge more for a regular courier.
Don't forget to tip Galen Weston.
This is one reason I dislike buying online. Never know when you're gonna be screwed by stuff like this.
I had to buy lab access codes online for a couple classes and with an applied 25% discount code on one item I still ended up paying, tax included, pretty much the same price as before the code was entered (without tax). Online is convenient when I'm buying things like old CDs or old games or something along those lines, but I hate all the sneaky shit a lot of places will try to pull on you.
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Grubhub is similar.
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