[randycupertino]

> I would so gladly pay a reasonable amount for delivery, and I don't mean these bespoke pick-everything-and-deliver-within-an-hour services - I just want to be able to choose a time, pay maybe $5-$10 and have a week's worth of food delivered. Is that so hard Loblaws?

It takes time for the labor- maybe 2 hours of time for someone to get your food, bring it to your house, and go back. So that's probably at least $30 worth of their time.

So yeah, $5-$10 is not reasonable. If you're paying that little the labor is being subsidized by something else, or you're exploiting a desperate underpaid worker.

[hocuspocus]

Yet most European supermarket chains manage to offer this, despite our labor laws, minimum wage, and no tipping.

The marginal cost of one delivery is obviously not 2 man-hours, that'd be ridiculous.

[randycupertino]

> The marginal cost of one delivery is obviously not 2 man-hours, that'd be ridiculous.

Why not? 1 hour to walk around the store and collect everything, 20 minutes to check it out, load the car, drive the the person's house, 10 minutes to walk the groceries to their apartment, wait for them to sign and open the door, 20 minutes to drive back. At least 2 hours of work.

[hocuspocus]

Of course if you run a delivery service in the most idiotic way, it'll cost you a few man-hours per delivery. But we're talking about supermarket chains, i.e. people who know a thing or two about preparing orders and dispatching them efficiently.