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broccolinied · 1 year

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there needs to be a grocery store for ppl who live alone/buy groceries only for themselves called Small Groceries and everything will be small. The smallest apples, those littler avocados, eggs in 6 carton boxes, pints of milk, half-loaves of bread, “single sized” boxes of crackers and bags of chips, smaller containers of sauces, beans, and baking ingredients. Not like single-use, just, you know, enough for a single person. And not like a convenience store, no, it will have everything a normal store has just smaller. I’d like to shop at a store like this.

#I'm hinting that im sick and tired of the world being oriented around the heterosexual family #anti grocery store #groceries #cooking #even when my girlfriend and i get married we will still just be 2 women #who subsist mostly off sardines and egg toast #i also dont buy many processed foods with preservatives so its really fucking annoying to be forced to buy a giant thing of whatever it is a #and have it go bad within 3 days #Mm also in the wake of amazon fresh upping their delivery fee im even more pissed off

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elibeeline · 7 months

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After limping so much at work it hurt my hip, im looking at forearm crutches again

#i did look at canes yes but those are more successful when the issue is balance #im not at risk of falling because of my disability. im at risk of hurting myself more with uneven weight distribution #so: forearm crutches #i just... dont know how to get one #or if i can use it at work #so if id actually have to call in sick on my bad pain days idk what i'd do #seeing how my other disabled coworkers are treated after being given seated jobs (often jealousy and offhand comments) i dont want that #me when my disability disables me :// dont do it #dbzbxh dont do disabilities kids (like you get a choice)#update: they're not as expensive as i thought (£20-£30 from amazon) and they cant deny me a mobility aid at work #id just have to. do my work with one hand.#which would suck I think #i could maybe do the tills? drinks aisle? drinks bundling? headset? idk #but thats no more drive thru or delivery or food #and the crutch would get in the way very quickly #idk #if it comes to the point where I cant do my job and cope with the pain at the same time I'll talk to the managers #itd be like a glimpse at that situation of choosing to cut off a hand or a foot #like i wouldn't be able to have both available at work? idk man this sucks

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transgender-catboy · 2 years

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Slamming my fist repeatedly into the ground

#i just #want to buy food #but amazon doesn't accept paypal (at least not here in Canada)#and pretty much all the food delivery apps dont fucking work in my town because its so SMALL #im hungry and tired #but im going out to drop off resumed so #yay...#vent

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possibly-an-ace · 2 years

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In the movie franchise Shrek, Fiona’s parents leave their only daughter in a castle surrounded by lava and a dragon. This is purely because of a curse placed upon her at night.

However they could have also just kept her in the castle at night and make Fiona return home before sunset. Furthermore, they could let Fiona kiss boyfriends and princes that she is in love with, thus potentially breaking the curse.

The only logical explanation that they did not do anything like these is because Fiona’s parents were assholes who did not want to deal with a child. In this essay I will…

#shrek #princess fiona #in this essay i will #shrek movie #how did fiona even survive in the castle???? she was what 7 when she arrived #how did she get food? water? clothes? anything in general #its not like they had amazon delivery drones

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immaterial-girl · 9 months

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chicken salad is sooo good. u guys. have u heard about this

#sorry i just got a bunch of groceries from whole foods bc they’re doing a thing with amazon delivery l #and my mom was like. please can you get some actual healthy pre-made food to get Some nutrients while ur ankle heas #*heals #and i kept telling myself i would go grocery shopping. u know. like a liar #ANYWAY i got literally a pound of chicken salad with the plan to put it on a sandwich BUT im just eating it by the spoonful #cause its SO good #mine

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 months

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Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss

Today (Oct 20), I'm in Charleston, WV at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

For a brief time this year, the bestselling "bitter lemon drink" on Amazon was "Release Energy," which consisted of the harvested urine of Amazon delivery drivers, rebottled for sale by Catfish UK prankster Oobah Butler in a stunt for a new Channel 4 doc, "The Great Amazon Heist":

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-amazon-heist

Collecting driver piss is surprisingly easy. Amazon, you see, puts its drivers on a quota that makes it impossible for them to drive safely, park conscientiously, or, indeed, fulfill their basic human biological needs. Amazon has long waged war on its employees' kidneys, marking down warehouse workers for "time off task" when they visit the toilets.

As tales of drivers pissing – and shitting! – in their vans multiplied, Amazon took decisive action. The company enacted a strict zero tolerance policy for drivers returning to the depot with bottles of piss in their vans.

That's where Butler comes in: the roads leading to Amazon delivery depots are lined with bottles of piss thrown out of delivery vans by drivers who don't want to lose their jobs, which made harvesting the raw material for "Release Energy" a straightforward matter.

Butler was worried that he wouldn't be able to list his product on Amazon because he didn't have the requisite "food and drinks licensing" certificates, so he listed his drink in Amazon's refillable pump dispenser category. But Amazon's systems detected the mismatch and automatically shifted the product into the drinks section.

Butler enlisted some confederates to place orders for his drink, and it quickly rocketed to the top of Amazon's listings for the category, which led to Amazon's recommendation engine pushing the item on people who weren't in on the gag. When these orders came in, Butler pulled the plug, but not before an Amazon rep telephoned him to pitch him turning packaging, shipping and fulfillment over to Amazon:

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-let-its-drivers-urine-be-sold-as-an-energy-drink/

The Release Energy prank was just one stunt Butler pulled for his doc; he also went undercover at an Amazon warehouse, during a period when Amazon hired an extra 1,000 workers for its warehouses in Coventry, UK, in a successful bid to dilute pro-union sentiment in his workforce in advance of a key union vote:

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/the-great-amazon-heist-oobah-butler-review

Butler's stint as an Amazon warehouse worker only lasted a couple of days, ending when Amazon recognized him and fired him.

The contrast between Amazon's ability to detect an undercover reporter and its inability to spot bottles of piss being marketed as bitter lemon energy drink says it all, really. Corporations like Amazon hire vast armies of "threat intelligence" creeps who LARP at being CIA superspies, subjecting employees and activists to intense and often illegal surveillance.

But while Amazon's defensive might is laser-focused on the threat of labor organizers and documentarians, the company can't figure out that one of its bestselling products is bottles of its tormented drivers' own urine.

In the USA, the FTC is suing Amazon for its monopolistic tactics, arguing that the company has found ways to raise prices and reduce quality by trapping manufacturers and sellers with its logistics operation, taking $0.45-$0.51 out of every dollar they earn and forcing them to raise prices at all retailers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

The Release Energy stunt shows where Amazon's priorities are. Not only did Release Energy get listed on Amazon without any quality checks, the company actually nudged it into a category where it was more likely to be consumed by a person. The only notice the company took of Release Energy was in its logistics and manufacturing department – the part of the business that extracts the monopoly rents at issue in the FTC case – which tracked Butler down in order to sell him these services.

The drivers whose piss Butler collected don't work directly for Amazon, they work for a Delivery Service Partner. These DSPs are victims of a pyramid scheme that Amazon set up. DSP operators lease vans and pay to have them skinned in Amazon livery and studded with Amazon sensors. They take out long-term leases on depots, and hire drivers who dress in Amazon uniforms. Their drivers are minutely monitored by Amazon, down to the movements of their eyeballs.

But none of this is "Amazon" – it's all run by an "entrepreneur," whom Amazon can cut loose without notice, leaving them with unfairly terminated employees, outstanding workers' comp claims, a fleet of Amazon-skinned vehicles and unbreakable facilities leases:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

Speaking to Wired, Amazon denied that it forces its drivers to piss in bottles, but Butler clearly catches a DSP dispatcher telling drivers "If you pee in a bottle and leave it [in the vehicle], you will get a point for that" – that is, the part you get punished for isn't the peeing, it's the leaving.

Amazon's defense against the FTC is that it spares no effort to keep its marketplace safe. As Amazon spokesperson James Drummond says, they use "industry-leading tools to prevent genuinely unsafe products being listed." But the only industry-leading tools in evidence are tools to bust unions and screw suppliers.

In her landmark Yale Law Review paper, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," FTC Chair Lina Khan makes a brilliant argument that Amazon's alleged benefits to "consumers" are temporary at best, illusory at worst:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

In Butler's documentary, Khan's hypothesis is thoroughly validated: here's a company extracting hundreds of billions from merchants who raise prices to compensate, and those monopoly rents are "invested" in union-busting and countermeasures against investigative journalists, while the tools to keep you from accidentally getting a bottle of piss in the mail are laughably primitive.

Truly, Amazon is the apex predator of the platform era:

https://pluralistic.net/ApexPredator

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

#pluralistic #release energy #channel 4 #amazon #corporate intelligence #labor #unions #amazon labor union #the great Amazon heist #catfish uk #oobah butler #delivery service partner

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mruniverse757 · 9 months

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#free food #food #deals #free delivery #amazon #grubhub

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pensarecool2 · 11 months

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So the way I manage to survive in this capitalist hellscape is through delivery apps with my girlfriend (she drives). Basically, I deliver packages/groceries/etc. Lately, we’ve been delivering Whole Foods groceries via Amazon deliveries out of the car, and it is fascinating to me how you can tell how rich someone is based on how many items are in their order.

I think there was a Mother’s Day promotion or something recently, and there was a lot of deliveries with just flowers (like single bouquets) so these ones were just going anywhere, right? Single flowers sent to poor or middle class areas. Places where the other deliveries never go.

Then, you have orders that are maybe 2 or 3 bags. These are going to relatively nice houses. Maybe it is a house that has been split into two apartments. The sidewalk is kinda not great, but you can tell its a decent house.

Then there’s orders that are like around 4-7 bag. This person got some groceries through Walmart. Not just a few things like a cake or whatever, they got a decent haul. These orders are going to a nice neighborhood. The houses are far apart. All the lawns are maintained. Its summer so maybe there’s a landscaping crew out that you gotta awkwardly interact with as you drop off the order.

Now 8-10 packages? This person has a private gate. You gotta open that shit. This person ordered from Whole Foods and they know you know. Houses are far apart. This isn’t a neighborhood where you’re gonna see police. This is rich people. But we’re not done yet.

11+ bags in the order?? Fucking private road. DID YOU HEAR ME SAY DRIVEWAY?? NO! I DID NOT! The biggest order I ever delivered? Private property. They had a roundabout. A mansion. 3 buildings; the house, a “garage” and I think it was a guest house??? It was the smallest building and it was bigger than the apartment building I live in (I live in a roach-infested studio apartment on the third floor and there is no elevator and I hate those stairs).

The 11+ package orders usually go pretty far, too. Like farms or just homes that are like around 30 minutes away (or more) from the Whole Foods they’re picked up from. I hate these stupid flimsy paper bags as well They don’t have handles (basically like large paper lunch bags for groceries with stickers to keep track of them). I hate seeing these huge fucking houses. I hate rich “people.”

OH ALSO BEFORE I POST THIS… can we talk about rich “people” farms? Like, I grew up in rural New York. There were a lot of farms around me. Now, these farms usually had local brands and grocery stores, right? The big ones around me had mainly apples if produced based and cows if otherwise. There is other seasonal produce, but you get the just. Some of them got chickens. If you looked around, there’s maple farms and bee farms and sheep, etc. Lot of variety. Some kind of small business, probably older folk who are very proud of their craft (they show up at the farmers markets. every listen to an old woman talk about her homemade maple sugar? or a woman show off her hand knitted hats? i once talked to a couple explaining their duck farm and their stuff was so fucking good).

Anyways, rich “people”?? They have fucking horses. Fucking mansions with swimming pools and horses and chickens walking around for the aesthetic. They order from Whole Foods and they pay double so it can be delivered from half an hour away.

#im mentally ill #my knees never don’t hurt but i was born fucked up #$pensarecool #🦷#whole foods #grocery delivery app #rich people #anti capitalist #amazon #amazon delivery #capitalist hellscape #farms #farm #disorganized rant

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benevolent-blackhole · 1 year

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My neighbor either throws parties or invites a specific group of people every other month or so and whenever they come they POUND up the outdoors stairs onto our shared front porch and bang on everything including, it sounds like, my front door…??? Just create as much noise as possible. I always think someone’s breaking in to murder us every time

#I know it’s someone being unusually loud because she gets Amazon a lot and they don’t do that #Food delivery people don’t do that #like it’s possible to come up totally silently #I never hear her come home for example

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rangpurcity · 1 year

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purplecouch2022 · 2 years

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AMAZON FRESH

Amazon Fresh offers free 2-hour delivery on tens of thousands of products – from a complete grocery selection to everyday essentials, toys, gifts and more. Fresh is Prime customer's one stop for great deals on national favorites, new tastes, organic, and more. Need to make changes after you’ve ordered? You can cancel or add items with no additional fees. Schedule a 2-hour grocery delivery window, free with any cart above $35 ($50 in NYC).

#amazonfinds #food delivery #amazon #healthy food

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starsweeperskies · 2 years

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Job applications suck, and i need cat food.

#half tempted to say f it and start giving em the kitten food too. they already eat it. saves me some money.#but then id feel bad cause its for our fosters and we get it for free #but the fosters eat the adult food all the time.#i need to cancel my amazon deliveries. ive got this wedding coming up and i cant afford anything else coming up.

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formeryelpers · 2 years

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Amazon Fresh, 5101 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601

We were in the area and decided to check out Amazon Fresh (a supermarket) for the first time. Amazon Fresh is an online and physical grocery store that offers free same-day delivery and pickup for Prime members. The carts are high-tech and you can ask Alexa questions. I think you’re supposed to scan the items you’d like to purchase with your Amazon app.

The market looked new, bright, and clean. The produce prices were higher than I expected but they did have quite a few organic options. The prepared food is cheaper than Whole Foods ($7.99/lb for the hot food bar and salad bar, $1.99 for a slice of pizza). Rotisserie chicken was only $4.97. You can get Allegro coffee (Whole Foods brand) from the self-serve espresso machine for $1.49.

The fresh flowers were not attractive. They carry Whole Foods 365 brand and there are similarities with WF, but they also carry brands that WF would not (mainstream brands like Marie Callendars).

Amazon Fresh has its own parking structure with a 2-hour parking limit. You can also take your Amazon returns there and pick up your packages. They have cashiers if you prefer a more traditional check-out experience.

3 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

#Amazon Fresh #grocery shopping #grocery store #grocery pick up #grocery delivery #North Hollywood #salad bar #hot food bar

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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Delhi Government to Engage With E-Commerce, Food Delivery Firms Over SUP Ban Implementation

The Delhi government plans to engage with various e-commerce firms and food delivery platforms, including Zomato, Swiggy, Amazon and Flipkart, for effective implementation of the ban on single-use plastic (SUP) items in the capital, officials said on Saturday. These firms have a huge business in Delhi and it has only increased after the Covid pandemic, they said, stressing that it is important to…

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#amazon #delhi government to engage with e-commerce food delivery firms over sup ban implementation zomato #flipkart #sup #swiggy

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expia · 10 months

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mean geto who only likes his girl <333

mean Geto, who literally hates everybody but his closest friends and family, and of course you

mean geto who looks like a big ass guard dog the way he stands next to you at the mall when people come up and try to talk to you (your outfits are always so cute and people always wanna know where you got them) he gets so annoyed and you and him both know you have 5 minutes max to talk to a stranger before he just picks you up and leaves.

Suguru loves you so much that he nearly scares the Sanrio employee the way he demands they take him to the My Melody and Hello Kitty areas. He wants to get you cute stuff because you had a bad day at school. Speaking of which, he will most definitely pull up to your school and try to pick fights with mean staff or students. No one makes his baby cry but him (and it’s only sexually that he hates when he makes you genuinely cry).

On top of that, he’ll do anything to make you stop crying. He’s on it. Food already delivered, plushies? Amazon overnight delivery Don’t play; you’re the only person who can get him to do anything, and I mean anything, for you, like bro will bury a body for you if he gets to

Mean Geto, who may not seem like it but is a huge softie for you, literally has a private wedding Pinterest album (he started it only two weeks after y’all started dating) because he wants to be with you for the rest of your lives.

(＞﹏＜)

#my man fr #jjk x black reader #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jjk x reader #jjk x black!reader #geto fluff #geto x reader #getou suguru x reader #geto x black reader #jujutsu kaisen fluff

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reasonsforhope · 10 months

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Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers walked out of their delivery facility on Thursday to demand that Amazon bargain with them. The 84 drivers currently on strike have held picket lines before, but this is the first time Amazon drivers have walked out in the U.S., according to a Teamsters press release.

The drivers, who work for the Amazon delivery service partner (DSP) Battle-Tested Strategies in Palmdale, California, unionized with the Teamsters in late April, and are demanding that Amazon come to the bargaining table to negotiate a contract. Drivers have already negotiated and ratified a contract with the DSP, which voluntarily recognized their union.

Amazon has previously stated that, because the drivers don’t work directly for Amazon—they work for the DSP, which is then contracted by Amazon—that the company is not obligated to bargain with them. For the past month, the union has been trying to prove that wrong, saying that, despite Amazon placing all responsibility onto the DSP, it is in fact in “complete control” of the DSP’s operations.

“We are on the picket line today to demand the pay and safety standards that we deserve,” said Raj Singh, one unionized driver on strike, in a statement. “We work hard for a multibillion-dollar corporation. We should be able to provide food and clothes for our kids.”

The drivers’ contract with the DSP guarantees a higher wage, protections against the extreme heat of California summers, and the right to refuse unsafe deliveries. Heat is an industry-wide hazard for delivery drivers. Motherboard has previously reported on how UPS drivers must deal with temperatures of over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Earlier this week, the Teamsters won a tentative agreement with UPS guaranteeing improved heat protections and air conditioning in trucks...

“Amazon has no respect for the rule of law, the health of its workers, or the livelihood of their families,” said Randy Korgan, the director of the Teamsters Amazon Division, which has been working to organize Amazon facilities to protect workers and maintain wage standards in the delivery and logistics industry. “Workers are on strike today because the only thing this corporate criminal cares about is profits. We are sending a message to Amazon that violating worker rights will no longer be business as usual.”

-via Motherboard at Vice, June 15, 2023

#labor #labor unions #labor rights #teamsters #amazon #delivery driver #organized labor #strike #ups #good news #hope

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