My local Target store has twelve (12!) curbside pick-up spots.
Who does curbside pickups these days (besides JFG, I guess)?
Most times I go there they are all empty. Yesterday, there was one (1) car there.
This COVID stuff sure made people lazy.
I do curbside pickup at Target most of the time. Not because I’m lazy so much as because if I go inside Target, they’ll get at least $200 more out of me than if I stick to curbside.
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Also, immunocompromised people, people with young children, people with very busy schedules, people who don’t want to waste time at a store if it’s not in stock, people with disabilities, people with social anxiety…
I think i’m more prone to over-buying on-line than in-person. It’s so easy…
Well, I’m not currently doing curbside pickup, although I did for quite a while. But do they have any shortage of parking spaces? If there’s a surge, they may suddenly find people want those spaces, and it’s a lot easier to leave the signage alone.
I very rarely shop, but rather buy. Especially at places like Target. In and out, get what ya came for and that’s it.
My weakness is the grocery store. There I shop. if there are 10 things on my list, I usually come home with 12 or 15. I LOVE the grocery store…
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Last night i went to a large, in-person, indoor social event. The event included a class, and I was expecting a 17 year old with a parent to come. I was a little worried about the parents, who wouldn’t be taking the class, but don’t actually know the stuff well enough.
So, who showed up? Just the parents. They explained that they hadn’t brought their child because the child had a cold. “Did you test them?” I asked. They looked surprised. “No, I’m sure it’s just sinus pressure from the weather, because I have the same symptoms, except I treated it with pseudofed and our child can’t swallow pills”.
It wasn’t my place to police attendance. But the parents screwed up the event by virtue of being incompetent, and maybe infected all the rest of us. If i test positive later this week and have to reschedule my upcoming procedure (or worse) I will sure as hell blame them.
How hard would it have been to do a pair of quick rapid tests? (Getting good enough at the activity to not screw up the rest of us would have legitimately been hard for them to do. It was still annoying.)
I do curbside pickup sometimes, but mostly not bc if they are out of something I don’t have the opportunity to adjust my menu plan. I tend to do pickup for Target bc their inventory system is better. I am both busy and lazy, if anyone is keeping track.
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I do, because traveling up and down the aisles is for suckers.
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Here, impossible. All stores are sold out.
Not here. I saw a stack at checkout at the grocery store, and i did some online shopping for the “8 free” and every nearby branch of CVS has them in stock. They are currently easy to get around here.
(And update, Mr Annoyance, the one who didn’t have symptoms, emailed me today to say the kid tested negative today. Since he knew i was worried. I thought that was nice of him.)
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I literally just had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn for a Chief Actuary role in Texas. Today. In Texas. When my linked in profile is like 100% trans issues posts, and literally yesterday I made a post about how companies shouldn’t be doing business in Texas.
Ugh. (Unless it’s Austin?)
That’s a recruiter who doesn’t bother the research their candidates. Yikes!
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Austin isn’t safe after today.
Yikes, clearly I need to catch up on some things.
While Austin’s personality may be liberal, it is still within, and subject to, the overarching personality of Texas which very much dwarfs it.
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I didn’t submit a delivery order, just somehow clicked delivery instead of pick up. I ended up going in the store another time to buy eggs.
Sometimes I shop in store if only a few things but I do curbside pick up for bigger grocery orders. I’ll do Target curbside pick up for one item tho. Last time I went inside there was a huge line to check out. F that.
The dog wants me to go outside to play with her but it’s too cold and I don’t want to.
I randomly throw stuff in my cart for several days and then when I accumulate enough or know I’ll be near a Target with time to kill I submit it.
My Target cart is essentially a shopping list these days. Much faster than going inside.