Yesterday morning, I made use of Instacart to pick out and deliver my lunch groceries.
Now, I'm set up for a week of breakfast and lunches at work.
The app offered free delivery for two weeks, so why not?
First, I noticed prices had a bump up from shelf prices
The bump up might be as much as a quarter.
I'll have to look next time I'm in the store.
Second, I wanted fruit, so I ordered apples, and the menu offered only what I call concept fruit, fruit from a hybrid apple tree reproduced by shoots of cultivars, packaged in a bag that didn't permit evaluation of the apples.
More focus on the bag than the apple, and only five to a bag?
We're in the apple growing regions of the Finger Lakes and South Lake Ontario shore, and all I can buy through Instacart are conceptual apples?
And the SnapDragon apples were out of stock and the picker called me to offer Pazzazz apples.
I know that a good, huge, fresh Honeycrisp in Fall might be worth a buck an apple.
The Pazzazz apples cost about that and failed to really meet my expectations for flavor and crunch.
Reading online about Pazzazz apples makes me wonder about the idea of genetic engineering, and there's a claim that these apples come from trees planted from the seed of honeycrisps?
I would really love to have an apple from a tree grown from a seed planted by Johnny Appleseed himself!
The texture made me think more of a Macintosh than a Red Delicious.
Five dollars for five apples makes me think of picking my own off a tree.
Everything else looked okay, a six pack of Limonata, lemon juice and San Pellegrino sparkling water, pretty much a yellow brick with six cans inside.
But it didn't taste tart enough, so I wonder if I got a bad batch?
I'll have to buy a Limonata from a coffeehouse to see if the intense lemon flavor hits my tastebuds that way I've come to love.
What really floored me was the long wait between the picking and the delivery, promised to be two hours or less.
I think it was longer, but unlike the Domino's half hour delivery or it's free deal, the Instacart App didn't timestamp the start of the delivery phase after the picking phase.
So I didn't have a transcript of the exchange, and many gig economy applications have a transcript.
I made a late lunch of it, making a few sandwiches in the break room.
At least I could buy the Monk's Brand sliced bread, made with oats and sunflower seeds.
When it toasts up, the fragrance has often caused folks to say, "Is anybody toasting raisin bread"?
Now, the driver impressed and shocked me.
I got a little text saying the driver was near.
The carrot logo in a round green dot stood on the corner of Kinne and Court Streets.
So I walked downstairs and went to the lobby.
She texted me, "I'm here".
I texted back, "Where? I'm in the lobby".
And she met me in the lobby with my three bags of groceries.
She walked out of the secured area we all need a badge to enter.
Technically, this meant a big deal but not like a clock resetting crisis at the nuclear power plant.
She simply had socially engineered her way into the secured area by explaining her business, and an employee let her inside.
She wasn't making a ton of money on the delivery, a two dollar tip from me and a four dollar delivery charge from Instacart, so waiting outside a security door meant losing out on that extra delivery each hour, meaning the difference between twelve dollars an hour and eighteen.
She made light of it, suggesting that the whole thing could be "our secret".
As for the two dollar tip, the app itself suggested the two dollar tip.
Okay, in the light of morning, I feel I was really cheap.
We probably will never have the Unabomber masquerading as an Instacart driver, awaiting at the gate with three bags full of plastic explosives.
So as we would say to one another back in the day I say now to myself, "Pop a lude, dude".
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