Attention Internet Buyers How to buy Groceries

10: that shopping cart trick does not work for me
9: It is deli chicken not bakery

This was really helpful to an online teacher during the Corona virus outbreak. I’m a Personal Financial Planning teacher and a monthly budget is our main topic. I’ve directed the students to buy groceries online to fill their budget line item for “Food at Home.” Since I’m not in the classroom to give a lecture on the pros/cons, your video is extremely helpful and now I’ve asked the kids to watch your video, fill out a pro/con list, THEN go grocery shopping online. This is always a fun project because as juniors/seniors in high school, they don’t have a clue what it takes to feed themselves for a month so it gets them talking with parents and each other and have to plan out a week’s worth of groceries (we multiply by 4 weeks to get the monthly line item number). Thanks! again!

An introvert’s dream! Yep, I think I’d be willing to pay for that!��

My daughter ordered from Instacart and was disappointed to find out that Shoppers charged $14.99 for a Boost product. I went into Shoppers the same day because we forgot to order something and noticed the same product was $8.99. This was last week. Unnecessary $$ out of pocket. Won’t use online delivery again. I’d rather go with a mask to the store or order from a big company like The Bay.

I live in a small town in Taranaki so only have had the pleasure of online shopping in the last year or so. I use online grocery shopping all the time. It is so convenient since I am a shift working nurse. I can do my shopping and get my husband to pick it up or just pick it up on my way home. I am also not tempted to impulse buy. I am picky with the produce so I do make a point to go and get produce. It is a life changer. I know that sounds silly but for me it works. Also, I dont have to remember my reusable bags if i swapped cars with hubby. Hehe. Love your earrings and thanks for the video

I live in China for about 6months now. I never carry my money along, I rarely go shopping. I can do everything just with my phone:)

nice idea but family need to get ready too for robber showing up at their doors too

We were ordering groceries online with homegrocer.com 20 years ago. Nothing new here.

Now this is a shady company. How do you allow this tip baiting? That is a large window for adjustment.

crap experience on Shipt as a buyer over 30 bucks worth of groceries missing and they don’t answer emails or phone

Yeah but known of them helps the ones with disabilities some use food stamps but people can’t shop online with food stamps. People with disabilities can no get the food online. They have to go to the supermarket pay personally and get the food. This online services service only people with credit card �� also this companies are to expensive

Some suggestions; Eat before you enter the store, low blood sugar increases the likelihood you will buy sweets and other impulse items. Grab a hand-basket instead of a cart. Calculate per unit costs sometimes the bulk sizes are more expensive than smaller portions. Compare all brands of a given item you might find better value or just have time to realise you don’t really need it. Buy ingredients, not processed products premade items are usually more expensive and contain tons of hidden salt, fat and sugar.

Been meaning to try click n collect and online shopping mainly for budgeting purposes and of course, the convenience of it. I can go into the shops and walk out with so much extra simply because it was on a good special or I wasn’t sure if I had the item at home.
Hoping online shopping will alleviate that. Thanks for pointing out the cons as well as the pros.

Here in Australia, the trend of placing essential items at all corners of the store is actually being phased out, at least in my state. A number of stores I go to have had refurbishments (or refits) in recent years, and almost all of them, have reorganized things so bread, milk and cereal are all close together.

Maybe supermarkets know that people know this and are a bit cheesed off, so they want to make things more convenient. Another thing they’ve been doing, is replacing some of the full sized trolleys with much smaller ones for small shopping trips, again a convenience thing.

I could be totally wrong on all of this though. This is just what I’ve noticed personally.

More example of LAZINESS of where society is headed. Then again, for those who want to BLOW all their money on these SERVICES, go right ahead. I’ll just be richer than you.

Yup. I work in a grocery store. I’ve learned to turn on my mental blinders and not buy into the marketing ploys. Though, I will say that our store’s music runs a variety of music with both upbeat and slow songs playing at all hours.

And yes, I shop using the smaller cart. I’m short so when I use the regular cart I just feel that much smaller

Instacart is a horrid company, similar to Uber. They treat customers and their own employees like garbage.

I always buy, basically, the same things… I don’t understand how people can buy more than they need. If you buy more at a time, you just make less trips to the supermarket, right?

ooh please….human are getting lazy out of their couch or home and interacting with one another. online shopping experience will never replace traditional way. retailers will have their showroom or outlets closed down rapidly if this continue.

I got tip baited 7 times in one day earning a total of $9 per hour leaving me $90 made on the day. I then have to set aside 30% of that amount just for taxes. leaving me $6 an hour. Oh my bad I have bills to pay.
4 of those baits literally told me they took my tip away because I wore a mask and gloves when I delivered their orders.

Instacart is a miserable app to work for. The products are hard to find and it takes forever to get an order together and deliver it. It takes 2 hours for $15. What a crock. Then they stole a $50 bonus from me. Go to hell crapcart.

The online grocery might change consumer shopping behavior in the long run due to opportunities to educate the market thru pandemic and more and more investment from corporates to sound capabilities to serve consumers. Most importantly, data is the most valuable assets!

#ThanksSimon You know I’m coffee lover and I drink tea sometimes ☺️

Putting toothbrushes next to toothpaste is not a “marketing strategy” where else would it go? Why put it anywhere else in the store?

Tip baiting sucks. It hasn’t happened to me yet though! Once, I did get $40 tip and I was sure it was a tip bait but it seemed easy and I was close by. So I did it. She kept adding things (from 8 items to 17 items) but I didn’t mind because she was friendly and her house was close too. Turns out it wasn’t tip bait at all! She was just an angel!

Hello! I was watching your video and noticed quite a few errors in your closed captioning. I was wondering if you could please correct the grammar, punctuation, and spelling for those who rely on closed captioning. Much love and thanks for the consideration.

WeChat and Alibaba have been extremely slow to expand overseas into western markets. This is really holding them back as global brands.

The tip isn’t wholly optional, the amount is adjustable. Remember to respect your shopper please.

You can have that kind of new world. I don’t want to be sold anything, nor do I want to be sucked into a convenient consumerism which piles up stuff which must, later on, be disposed of. It seems China has bought into the worst of materialism.

The music in stores generally irritates me and makes it harder to concentrate, so I need ear buds in some stores. Target plays no music at all and they get way too much of my money because I don’t feel like I have to hurry out or use my own music to tune out theirs. And a couple of times I’ve walked out of a store because they played a song I just hated too much to stay.

You do gradually outgrow some of these tricks, mind you, as you get older. Some are pretty effective because yes, you do tend to pick things up that are near other things or that you pass by on the way to the milk. And they like to scatter the same thing in different places which pisses me off. But if you stick to a list it’s a big help, and even though the chicken smells good or the bananas are buttercup yellow, once you’ve eaten the tasteless chicken or and unripe yellow banana, you stop believing your senses. The organic bananas seem to taste more ripe when they’re a little green than the other bananas when they’re yellow anyway.

People in the West talk about the Google and Facebook duopoly but Tencent and Alibaba is so much more encompassing and fully integrated which is clearly not a good thing.
To start with they are nodes for the government, which pass their data on to Beijing and allow for the Communist Party to both monitor and influence the population.
Then there is the protectionism; they have the worlds biggest domestic digital market safeguarded (the government doesn’t allow foreign competition) allowing them to invest these vast earnings to give them financial advantage in other countries. It’s a bit like Arab airlines having their biggest variable cost, fuel, essentially free.
There is a lot of innovation in China. However people need to appreciate that shopping is the hobby of the Chinese, the massive advantage Chinese ecosystems have from a protectionist perspective and the fact privacy is not an option in China.

I’ve done online grocery shopping in the UK (fee based on demand) and US (3 separate fees +tip) and the US model sucks. I hate it. I’ve been an online grocery shopper for over 5 years and actually am now reversing my habits in a pandemic because the US tipping model is such an unpleasant experience. You can’t talk about the customer experience and then talk about tipping, which is essentially a guilt trip at the end of the interaction.

I have wanted to order from home before the crises, and now after during and after this pandemic… I still cannot order from home.

The bananas coloring thing is bananas. Never noticed the music thing, now I’m going to notice. ��

If I go shopping for food, I always have a meal before I go out that way, anything the shop does to make you feel hungry has no effect. I also generally go round the shop in the opposite direction, as goods they want you to buy rather than those you need are usually on the right hand side. I never try samples of anything, and generally (although money isn’t a problem) get items from high up or low down. I seldom buy fruit and vegetables from a big store, as I have a couple of very good greengrocers locally. Likewise, meat there is a very good butcher within walking distance of home. I never listen to instore music because (a) it is usually utter dreck, and (b) the shop is so large, and acoustically poor, the music is rendered distorted beyond caring, and it’s easy to filter out. Oh, and always use a small trolley, and never go shopping with children.

I feel rest assured that China will win after seeing the brainless comments section. Peace.

Thank you Simon, nice video informative and presented very well.

i’m pretty sure that’s a thermometer for humans. my mom used one of those for me when i was a little kid. (maybe cos it’s easier than sticking a thermometer under the tongue or up the butt).

I love all these stores that they deliver because as a single mother who does not have a car��it makes it so much easier to buy for me and my son������

People make suggestions on how not to over-buy at a grocery store, like eating first, taking a list and sticking to it, etc. Might I suggest another trick? DEVELOP SOME SELF-CONTROL. Make wise choices based on mature decision-making ability. That way, you can BE yourself instead of having to try to TRICK yourself.

Never go shopping without eating first. When you are hungry, you’ll buy more products.

Unless you are in the showbiz, only stupid people will buy 25+ pairs of shoes a year! Think in the context if you got 4 people in a household….and I mean not only shoes but all the junks sold in Alibaba and the like! Alibaba etc. are actually promoting cocaine and marijuana to the people in China and the world by nourishing their “impulsive consumption” habits and stuff their houses full of garbages eventually, which in turn transfer their hard earned money to the pocket of infamous Ma Yu. Do not believe such blind China-promo BS talks without thinking!

The reporting on this topic went back and forth. Instacart treats their Shoppers poorly, but the company is creating measures to provide proper benefits. Then when you hear from the employees, gig workers, Shoppers it’s a different story. I don’t know what to believe!

Saw people buying bottled water in Auckland New Zealand. Auckland tap water is excellent. Often the bottled water is tap water. People must like spending I suppose. As a Scotsman I hate spending. I will never ever buy bottled water in NZ. Flint Michigan? I’ll bring my own!

Upper middle class Chinese have blinkers on, this is not representative to real China and not very far from a collapse by mid 2019

While in downtown Chicago one day I did a study with one of these mock grocery stores. It recorded my eye movements with these glasses and I had to pick a grocery list of items and discuss why I picked what items. It was one of the coolest studies I’ve ever done!

I have a one track mind while shopping no mater what I get what I’m planning on getting nothing more

TopTenz is great, thank you. Coffee Break however have a negative feature on School of Life, which is another site I like so I’m afraid I won’t pursue Coffee Break, still, TopTenz is my most visited site.

what amazes me most are all the utterly ignorant and stupid comments from yanks and others in the west. What ALL of you will and never can do is understand the CHINESE mind. You think that they are just mindless robots buying everything and anything. YOU and your western mind would do this and actually do this. Chinese people think EVERYTHING through, rapidly and buy because they WANT to buy. As far as ‘damage’ to the environment is concerned, how many billions of ltrs of fuel is saved by people not having to go to your massive polluting malls to buy? How many of your countries have spent $80 trillion on saving their environment and have closed down 48,000 coal plants and 4,8 million factories that do not adhere to the new and very strict antipollution laws of China? How many of your countries have planted 730 million trees to RE-forest deserts and areas that they have turned into green oasis’s to clean the air? How many of your countries have made it LAW that by 2025 ALL public transport on most major cities will me electric?? How many of your countries have, like the hypocritical/criminal regime of USA opened up and spent millions on NEW coal mines and fracking?? WHAT HAVE YOUR COUNTRIES DONE TO CUT EMISSIONS AND FORCE ELECTRIC CARS ONTO THE ROADS INSTEAD OF HAMPERING IT AS THE USA HAS DONE FOR DECADES. You USA, what are you doing about the millions of tons of nuclear waste you have stockpiled in and crumbling dumps all over the USA that is now leaking and alarming rates and which your trump has cut the maintenance budget of BY HALF? ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC.

I began Instacart and it was impossible for me to be able to accept batches. They showed up for less than a second. So instacart May have hired a lot of people but the job opportunity is not fair. Also, when I was able to accept ONE, the tip was 2$ for a total of 30 items… from fresh market.. the receipt of the fresh market batch was &118, and the two dollar tip just doesn’t justify the hour of shopping plus delivery time. For 2$ I might as well stay home so that I don’t risk getting corona. Instacart is not as “amazing” as the company makes it seem to be. The pay is extremely low.

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basically they pay there employees with tips. how is that sustainable, tbh after the pandemic people will quickly switch to going physically shopping

OMG that’s what happen when Communists let the market go wild. People go crazy.

does coffee break have anything to do with the journal series started by the vocalist of cin in 2014?

Never go to the market hungry. Eat first and you will buy fewer impulse items.

Lots of comments are about comparing china vs the west or US.
Well, 2 points I have in mind:
1. It’s not about who creates more wastes. it is about we are throwing more trash to the earth. SO stop saying the west did this, did that, we do this do that. Start saving the earth.

2. It is scary that one day, your whole life, your whole world is on a piece of chips (namely your phone). Because by then, your life is not your anymore. it is free because you are the product!

Hello, thank you for the interesting video. I’ve noticed that your closed captioning is auto-generated and has no punctuation. That makes it very difficult to understand if one cannot hear the content as well. In addition, there are errors in the verbiage such as “it’s the card” instead of Instacart. Please consider updating your closed captioning.

What the auto boots that are stealing numbers of batches before u can see and take the batch.

What’s going to STOP these partnerships from creating their own in-door delivery service? For instance, Disney has now removed all of their contents from Netflix to be placed on their own home-base platform. That’s why all of these service-based startups won’t last being intangible, especially food-delivery apps that that cost more for consumers buying the foods using them than without using them and ordering directly by restaurant phone number, and these restaurants could soon create their own in-house delivery. All these startups are stupid ideas just like the once-glorified WeWork.

interesting what´s going on with chinas shopping world/ behavior…. the system a) collecting information through PC, Tablet, Smartphone etc. of potential consumers b) creating a structure, profile of consumer behavior and use them to optimize production lines, service offers etc. d) send consumers the right products & service offers, e) deliver their bought goods at home is fantastic, comfortable, increasing shopping behavior, makes economy circle more profitable… BUT one weakness of online shopping consists that if you buy clothes, shoes etc. you get the wrong size or something else is wrong with the delivered clothes, shoes etc. you have to give them back, order another size etc. ALL those steps need more time then buying them in a local store…I only buy clothes, shoes or other stuff in a local store. I can try on them to get the right size, fresh food and desired quality etc….it´s easier and faster to practice local shopping for me. Some of my acquaintances were a professional global business buyer. Many factories in special parts of the world have a non-professional customer service. Problems with payments, with delivery service time, with customs office, with changing wrong delivery goods etc….All those laws, regulations, processes for global business should be done more easier and convenient for the parties……the idea and concept of this online system are great but not really developed.

Amazon Prime Now is the fastest and most cost effective, since there’s no delivery fee if you order at least $35 and you get free two hour delivery in addition. They are always on time too. However, Prime Now has nowhere NEAR the amount of items Safeway and Walmart has. It’s like Prime Now is your small gas station store and the others actual giant grocery places. The $10 delivery fee of Safeway makes me only choose them when I get free delivery coupons (which is very rare). Walmart grocery delivery isn’t even available right now where I live.

For the apple sauce you may wanna try the “vegan area” if your supermarket has one. At least in europe the vegan sauces / purées tend to have less “advanced chemistry” in them most of the time…

No one is better at getting you to see every aisle than ALDI. They literally make you walk through a predetermined maze path to get to the check out lanes lol. I still prefer them though!

Instacart better get their ish together or they won’t have any drivers left.

I’ve been using C’8 (www.c8coordinate.com) aid coordination platform to purchase $30 USD of groceries for people that posted of their need in C’8 with a list of items desired and a link to their local grocery store with online shopping available for me and/or others to make such donations/purchases not only directly from person to person, but even more purely, directly to the supplier of their needed items, taking nearly all potential for abuses off the table. So far I’ve purchased groceries in Nigeria, USA, Haiti and México and am looking forward to fulfilling a post from S. Africa when she replies with a local vendor link: https://www.c8coordinate.com/post/120 I’m not a wealthy person and cannot personally fund all needs posts in C’8 of course, but I am still working, I earn more than I need and I simply love giving.

C’8 is a purely altruistic, free and available to all aid coordination platform I’ve been developing since volunteering in hurricane Sandy relief in 2012 (with Team Rubicon and other groups) where anyone in the world can create needs posts and anyone in the world can find such posts and coordinate direct, specific, immediate, zero overhead, 100% transparent aid donations. I will continue to try to fund needs posts myself as I’m able as well as to work to attract attention of other potential givers that want a pure way to coordinate aid for those in need.

It is quite a clear fact that China is raising in a tramemdous speed and on the way to win in all aspects and beat USA, including economy, military, deplomacy, technology, etc., though still many problems to resolve. Just it will take longer time for western world to accept the fact that same happened in the last thousands years….

USED THEM ONCE NEVER AGAIN MUCH BETTER SERVICE WITH WALMART AND MEIJER FOR DELIVERY!!!

the Meijer store chain in the Midwest has small shopping carts for those buying just a few things

They have electrodes in the floor as well to give you tiny shocks to keep you awake and alert but also to make sure you are listening to the music with subliminal message in it.

I’m watching this while I placed pizza from pizzahut for my friends in China. The food was here before I finished the video. I really love the system. Although I enjoy grocery shopping and its very optional, sometimes this system makes it more flexible for me. Everybody wants more time to have fun, if carrying heavy loads of water is fun for you, be my guest. I bought a package of alcohol and it was delivered in 40 minutes. Compare that to what I got in the states. Walmart took fking 4 days.

I think retail in the USA must be different to Aus, sure we do some similar things but having worked retail I understand there’s no tricks involved, mostly because we seem to have stricter laws about what shops can and can’t do here.

Make a list, and stick to it easy way to avoid impulse buying

Milk isn’t in the far corner of UK stores like Tesco and Sainsbury’s. It’s with the dairy about one quarter of the way around.

We don’t have those terrible misters either. It might look fresh but covering veg with water is a great way of causing it to rot quicker. Example, see how fast those bags of washed lettuce leaves last compared to an unwashed lettuce you prepare yourself.

Please don’t be fooled by this CNBC NEWS information this company is not a family-friendly Employer. I Have been was working for Instacart for almost over two years. I’m a Canadian, I was hired before they rolled out in Canada. I am A full-time Employee with another Company and have recently devoted my full-time attention to Instacart due to Covid-19. Yesterday I was informed from the Instacart application from which we get all of our information and instructions from that I had been fired, ie Instacart terms “Deactivated” due to not delivering to customers. This was an absolute shock to me I could not understand what was happening, but I did know that there had been a lot of difficulties with the application not working and the G.P.S signal had not been working for a couple weeks but Iv been dealing with these type of glitches for a long time so I didn’t think anything of it. The Customer has Always been the number one focus for me. Honestly I love helping Customers. So I disputed their accusation, of not delivering the grocery to the customer. I also asked if I could please speak to a Manager or person so we could talk and discover together the misunderstanding. They responded with an email saying ” We received your request to reconsider the decision to deactivate your Insitcart service shopper account after a thorough review (one of the reasons I wanted to talk to them was because I wanted to know about the “thorough review?)of the available information about the failure to deliver orders reports Instacar has determined there was a breach of contract. I had no control over this situation even doing my job perfectly right. My other Job I am A supervisor In A College in A food Establishment and I literally had no control over this situation. I have been an Employee at my other job for 15 years. I screenshotted all of my orders but they still fired me without even a phone call. They don’t actually contact the customer to confirm if they have received their order they only go by their unreliable system. Its been a very difficult time as most people would understand. I do not trust this company anymore. Please take caution when ordering they do not treat their contractors like people.

We’re converts too, except for fresh bread because for some reason it’s never in Stock in the bakery section online. Other than that we love it though��

hah! #10 is horrible! i work at a grocery store. worst thing is people who grab the smaller cart and then OVER FILL it. if we were using oversized carts, why also have the small ones? #7 makes me mad, as i stock the shelves at night and i hate that crap. #6 is partially true, but its not always about markup. the companies (kraft, betty crocker, etc) pay a lot of money to be at eye level.

Immediately thought there must be lots of comments praising how advanced China is, but turns out I can see a bunch of comments saying “we need consume less.”

i cant find a link to the coffee break channel in the descriping.. and not in the video..

0:53 I actually work at Cub Foods in Minnesota, totally caught me off guard to see my store logo in your video!

I wish they wouldn’t spray produce with water. It might make it look fresher, but it makes it rot quicker once you get it home. Drives me nuts.

I leave in Wellington in a slopping section (with lot of steps to access the house). I shop online from my phone with my local New World. Now, finish to carry down the steps all the heavy groceries. Also very handy when you are in holiday to order remotely and schedule the delivery close to the time you are back home. I recently did that after a long holiday out of the country. From overseas, on my phone, I ordered my groceries at New World to replenish my fridge and pantry. So convenient to don’t have to go to the supermarket after a long flight.

That fact about bananas, although undeniably true, is just sad. The best way to buy bananas, is to get them green, and let them ripen at home. They actually taste best just after perfect ripeness, I’ve found. Labelling on home grown vegetables in the UK will now tell you the variety of the food, the address of the farm it came from, the farmer’s name, when it was harvested, and, in some cases, even which field (with a geo-tag) it was harvested from.

So giving away nasty brit food increases it’s sale? Thank not

In March I was supposed to have a part time job but sadly corona virus came. After that I became an independent contractor in April and I enjoyed the pay during the peak when people were afraid to go outside. Now that people are going back to grocery stores I will start looking for a part time job. I did order the Saftey kit. The mask was like a piece of underwear you buy at the flea market. I appreciate the hand Sanitizer, but if someone needs a good mask I suggest donating blood to get a better mask.

The Insta cart workers always complaining when I’m out shipping and complain of low wages and say the work is irregular. They don’t know what they will earn day to day. Most seem miserable. They say the tip sucks. I for now will stick to my old fashioned way of getting my own groceries. I appreciate this business for seniors.

Now I see why $8.95 for a hour? Less than min wage!

These “smart” guys are ripping off consumers and workers simultaneously. Fascist Capitalists that deliver less value than reasonable. Grotesque CEOs and executives that haveve no understanding of fair business practices for long term sustainability. Asswhole Nerds with no empathy nor decency.

Before covid I used grocery delivery because of physical limitations.. it was great. As soon as covid hit, my grocery store stopped doing the delivery option..: ( You can pick up, but there is no way to talk to the shopper if there are out of stock or substitution questions (as they do all the online orders overnight now) so you don’t know until you actually have the order ready to pick up what was available and what was not.. Meaning you pay for the service and pick up the groceries and your careful planning for two weeks is out the window. You still need to either pay for the service again, still not knowing if you will get your items.. or go to the store anyway. I have found it better to go myself, as difficult and scary as it is, so I can make adjustments to my 2 weeks worth of food while I am shopping. Some quick menu planning on the fly with what is actually available on that day. I do wear a mask.. always… And the store has many safety precautions in place. #thenewnormal: /

Edit: I forgot to mention.. They are a smaller, local to my state grocery… The delivery service when it was available instructed no tipping as the drivers were well paid to begin with.. none of this “depending on tips nonsense” for these people to make a living… and no feeling guilty or weird about.. “did I tip the right amount” A flat 15 dollar charge for each delivery order was charged.

To all those who say ‘we enjoy grocery shopping’, Grocery shopping is tedious. You Americans eat a lot of frozen food, so you don’t have to cook from scratch after going home. Asian countries need to cook food from scratch while working for longer hours than you do. We prefer online delivery of our groceries.

网购的兴盛也促进了国内资源回收产业的发展，甚至创造了更多的相关就业，真不懂这帮外国人酸什么。论人均资源消耗，美国人是中国人的53倍，凭什么他们可以消耗这么多资源，我们用一点就要被说三道四

* Who eats the food inside your cart and while your in the grocery store and without paying for it and paying later*

One of the main ways grocery stores find out what we’re buying is through the “rewards cards”. Being able to match sales to other demographics is immensely valuable.

Just wanted to say thank you for helping my family and I find our way to “You Suck at Cooking”. We love that channel. The macaroni and cheese video is one big epic win.

A fantastic video Jen. This came at a perfect time as I’ve been researching into adding online food shopping into my week.

I’m slightly agoraphobic and have some social anxiety so sometimes things like shopping for groceries can be overwhelming. Thankfully there are programs like this that I plan to start using.

She didn’t mention how Chinese e-commercial company monopolize internet shopping business. Also didn’t mention why foreign IT company was banned such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Line. She just boast she’s country without truth. Just said without real thing.

I’m impressed of the changes happening to how people in China shop, but at a point of her speech, I feel that she hints something like “if you are not big enough, you are no likely to change the way people do things” when she mentioned what the giants like alibaba and tencent can and the small retailers couldn’t.

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I made it a point to read 560 comments. I would say 90% are from salty people that can’t stand to admit they are getting behind.

Consumerism is definitely over the top in China now. Traditional value such as saving has been laughed at by this new culture of purchasing.

Wait, alcohol free samples?! There are grocery stores that sell alcohol?

Regardless of who delivers my groceries, please don’t put my bags of groceries on the damm ground. If you don’t have a hand cart with you in your car, please don’t take the call. Those bags that you just put on the ground in the parking lot of my apartment complex end up on my counter. I don’t know who spat on the ground before my groceries were placed there. Please don’t put my groceries on the ground people. Thank you. -Q-

It is hilarious to find some over package, environment damage comments here.
In fact, Japan’s over package issue is much worse than China.
And speak of wasting, no one can compare with the US on this planet.
Consuming behaviour is influenced also by culture.
Chinese always advocate frugality.
Most Chinese prefer saving. Highest saving rate in the world!

Instacart is suffering from hackers taking those orders and making a middleman type of business out of them. Random ppl who aren’t Instacart shoppers are getting them.

ultimate tip: If you are broke, you won’t buy anything you don’t need:D Problem solved as a true eastern european.

I prefer online shopping because it keeps me from buying extra stuff I don’t need. We pick up our groceries.

I’m laughing so hard at all this people who want to scream about dystopianism. This will make everything more efficient. Not to mention all of this is concentrated in the major cities. Major cities in which use bike sharing, high speed train, and car pool. This also reduces the need for supermarkets to overstock and waste large quantities of food because no one bought them. China is the future.

I have not been able to check out my Amazon fresh cart for a month now apparently no check out windows I cant even set something up for three weeks from now

Always go really early or really late no crowds and nothing is sold out

Just be careful with China policy. You can’t sell your stuff into their country so easily and yet they can export so easily. So Trump is right in some way

评论比演讲本身有意思太多，当你翻过城墙，你才会发现墙外的人也在墙里面。思考观察，是谁的影子遮了谁的眼，谁的目光刺破了谁的城墙比单单站在城墙上看风景或者呆在各自的城墙里面意淫不存在的自由有趣多了。谢谢你们的表演。

I want to stay at home too and there is nothing else that I hate to go grocery shopping

Are you an American channel? I’m from the uk and the bread and bakery is always right in the furthest corner. And milk nearer the front for ease, and people tend to pick that and frozen good up last. Just makes sense but as you it makes you do an entire lap of the shop. They also switch around the non-essentials in between around fairly often so sometimes you even have to go back and forth.
I remember in college when I was studying psychology there is a shit load behind the layout of shops.

“To save money, look up or down”, or just be far enough away from the average height.

When big tech says “Gig worker”, we all think some young college kid making a few extra bucks (all the ads). When in reality my Uber driver is a new immigrant from Africa or India who drives 60 hours a week, my Doordash is a 40 year old single mom and my grocery shopper is a recently laid off truck driver or ‘early retiree’ from the construction industry. I have never actually had a student gig worker in 2 years of using these apps.

It a fair world,either you do it right or try doing them wrong.

Instacart should pay a living wage for full time hours. Like Uber and Lift it exploits desperate people for low wages. Maybe some do well but they need health benefits 401k and living wages. The rich getting rich off the poor makes me sad and angry. Xyz ers we must change our USA we must END corporate greed and legal slavery.

Implementation elsewhere is limited by population density and legally mandated minimum hourly pay. Receipt of delivery is impacted by the fact that many households are bigger and multi-generational, thus there’s someone to receive the purchases. It’s very interesting progress none the less.

Curbside pickup and delivery is far more cost effective than having someone deliver, having that added feature in the last couple weeks is going to be new data for each corporate company rather compile in one and assuming for those without public balance sheets. Curbside pickup is by far my favorite as a young gen, as it doesn’t risk the shopper shopping and has just a member working in the stores to self allocate the merchandise. If instacart were to adapt to this new rule, I would probably see pay cuts from pickup and delivery as that would be reduced by 50% on deliverable times. But it would be hard for instacart to adapt to curbside pickup as more corporations are finding resolution hours rather beat around the bush as a service. This way corporations are able to offset there customer experiences for the long term rather short term. Good luck shoppers and best of all, curbside pickup is my new favorite as a young millennial that I am. As a worker you would rather be a W-2 than a 1099 whereas a 1099 all your expenses will need to be made on your own terms as the company doesn’t subtract these for tax purposes. So you are literally going in with deer heads just butting what is owed. The fact that it isn’t treating the job as a W2 will have more increase employee or sub employee as an independent contractor complaints than resolution. It’s almost like an MLM setting scheme without earning caps just a fixed cap for all independent contractors minus benefits. And benefits are important to the employee as it bridges why employees stay at companies. Treat others how you want to be treated. And to say when one doesn’t want to work for the company, another 10 are right behind, it’s like me saying well if you don’t use Facebook, then another 10 more will just fill your spot and so in a way the company isn’t losing money but just have people on stand by whenever possible. It’s not good business practice, it just gives such a sketchy scene. Great service but lags the attention to benefit and educate there employees that are 1099 contracts. Tipping is great but it shouldn’t be of your quota margin or get penalized for not hitting quota because during a pandemic like such, you shouldn’t have quotas. The tipping idea is a bad way to margin output growth for a business, if anything it should be how many deliverables equals said amount dollar so it guarantees a payment of income rather deciphering around lows and highs of tips which creates a different average take in per day or quarterly on those 1099 taxes.

United States is so behind china when it comes to advancements….. But hey we have clean water lol

Grocery delivery should replace stores
so we want be cluttered up in stores.

It seems, time is turning backwards. Grocery delivery is a very old concept.

The bullshit is real..
Are they making money?
Yes.
They are breaking even.
Is it me, or is there something wrong with the sentence itself that how are u making money when u are breaking even.

I believe in China we buy stuffs online is much eco-friendly than we buy things here! In US we drive car to buy things no matter how small it is. But in China the delivery is well designed and they can maximize the efficiency. Some people talk about overconsumption, I don’t think so. I lived in China I did buy a lot of stuffs online. Now I live in US I buy much less stuff online not because I buy less things just because it is not convenient to buy things online here

In 2016 US consumer spent over $115 billion using digital payment, ApplePay, PayPal,etc…
Big isn’t it…?
Gigantic isn’t it…?
Colosal isn’t it…?

In China…?
It’s over $9 trillion dollar in 2016 alone with WePay and AliPay, half of US entire annual GDP of 2017.
How’s that…?
Try to count how many figure in that number.

People might argue China’s digital payment is huge because of their population, yeah 5 times of the US, but US percapita is 6 times of China.
It was the amount of money used through digital payment system by Chinese which is 78 times of the US’s.

Do Chinese really buy what they need? Or eventually those products just go to the trash can and create more trash?

The changes of music is new to me. I knew they played it to get you to shop more but did not know the way they use it. The rest I already knew about… just knowing these things can help you spend less.

A trick in pubs is to offer a tab because you don’t see how much your spending. One trick I use is ” would you like a single or double?” This works very effectively with Americans. In restaurants don’t ask for recommendations because your likely going to get what they want to get rid if. The easiest thing to make or the meal that’s going to make the most money.

Tbh a “gig” should never be your primary source of income. It’s too unpredictable and too menial to have the capability to generate a realistic stable wage.

At present Delivery job is the Highest paid than any other post in the world.

Before you criticize China please thought throughly its internal environment. China has over-population and only mandarin speaking country. How those refugees can set down comfortably in this land? Chinese it’s really really hard to learn from 0

I’ve had grocery delivery for years, not sure how so many people still have the nerve and patience to go in store

Indeed there will be money to be made, billions of them! But I hope they understand that they are also creating a culture of consumers debts, unnecessary spending, lazy, impatient, unhealthy, overweighted, insatiable, online fame seeking, materialist generation, much like the West has and still going through!