Maybe it’s because I live in the US, but I thought that was common. What’s really shitty is when I go to pump gas and the screen on the pump starts blasting ads at me. That’s some dystopian shit.

I remember I went to this big regional hardware store in the Midwest (of course the owner was a huge chud shithead too) and they would play recordings of “deals” over the PA constantly, and between them every fucking time was their incredibly obnoxious jingle. I was only in there once for less than twenty minutes, I can only imagine the irreversible damage it has done to the employees.

This might seem petty bourgeois and tell me if you think it is, but I started ordering my groceries over (not from the gig economy but from the chains themselves who use the national postal service to deliver) and I have never moved back. I started doing it because I got into a situation where I did not have my driver’s license at the time and lived in a so-called “bedroom town” with no amenities, and this was the only realistic option.

I have only had benefits from getting my groceries delivered. I get to keep an eye on my budget, I’ve reduced impulsive purchases, it’s freeing up a lot of time that I would otherwise spend waiting in line or navigating the store. I understand that I’m depending on the labour of others to deliver food that I could go get myself but I also think this is freeing and reduces labour (no word on how the deliverers, who work in the afternoons and evenings, manage their own grocery shopping and this would definitely need to be clarified). In this way I’m reminded of Kollontai’s Family and communism about socialised labour.

It also prevents me from taking the car out just to get groceries for myself, although I don’t know if their minivan (they deliver idk how many homes in one trip) is more efficient.

So yeah definitely recommend getting deliveries instead of actually going into stores.

Gas station TVs were what did me in. I poured a soda into one of their speakers once lol