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by LastZactionHero 2228 days ago
Whoa, you have local businesses?

Our leaders have deemed that even curbside pickup is far too dangerous, so Amazon is the only shop in town.

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Here in the Midwest, everything except 1) franchise stores and 2) single-proprietor stores have gone to curbside pickup. They invented a whole pickup process at our grocery store, with shipping containers in the parking lot containing staged carts with numbers, masked-and-gloved young people filling and shuttling carts to the container. They text you when your cart is ready. Drive over and park in a numbered space and reply with your space number. Somebody comes out of the container with your cart and you pop your trunk.

Cars coming and going all day. Works well for everybody (with a car).