At Walgreens guy claims that he delivered one candy bar to a customer once. Said he got 4 dollar tip on top of cost or the candy bar. I think that’s crazy and got to be exaggerated. I mean who so lazy they order a single candy bar through Doordash?

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    I’ve done that, you can sometimes add stuff for no additional fee from a nearby conveneince store

    Gotten an individual soda that way when places don’t sell them and I’m out

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    I mean who so lazy they order a single candy bar through Doordash?

    Tell me you’ve never been baked out of your gourd without telling me you’ve never been baked out of your gourd

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    I only order from Doordash if I’m sick and don’t feel comfortable being out in public. (Especially if I’m not sure if it’s Covid) I usually order the same things because if I’m sick, I want food I don’t have to make for myself that wouldn’t disappoint me if I couldn’t taste it well enough.

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    It might not be about laziness. Maybe it was for a pregnant woman with a craving. Or a stoner with the munchies. Or someone lost a bet.

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      I can absolutely imagine sitting around with mates and deciding to order a delivered candy bar just to see if they would do it.

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      I dashed for a bit during the pandemic and I had this one older lady a couple times just order a big gulp from the 7-Eleven a couple minutes away with a $5 tip. She explained to me she ran a business from home and this was essentially a charitable act because she felt blessed in a situation that sucked for most people. Super nice lady.

      Also once had an old man in a rich neighbourhood give me a $20 for a pizza that was about 5 minutes away, he said he has more money than he knows what to do with lol.

      Also also, delivered some McDonald’s late at night probably 1 am or something. This girl in her 20s was sitting out front hitting a bong and asked if I’d take a toke as a tip lol

      It was honestly kinda fun to do on the side when I was bored and wanted to feel like I was being productive

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      Or someone lost a bet.

      I had a surprise Doordash delivery one night. Turns out my kid beat his friend on Siege so the friend had to ship him a Monster.

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    I choose to believe it was a disabled diabetic person who ordered one candy bar. They needed to quickly regulate blood sugar and couldn’t get themselves out of the house alone and in time.

    Paying a few extra dollars would be a small price to pay.

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    I ordered a DQ blizzard once. Store is literally walking distance.

    But I wanted it and didn’t want to go anywhere. And someone might need the money and it’d take em like two minutes so…

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        Would rather spend it paying a guy to deliver it for me than spending it on mega companies

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    My sister is a manager at a Dollar General and they get orders all day, everyday for single cheap items like this (soda, candy, chips, etc). While some of it is probably add-ons to other orders, many are not.

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      Its the same with Walgreens. Its always one to two items. Did a curbside for 2 small items and a dasher picked it up not the customer. I don’t whete they getting the money? Doordash is expensive as hell. And this a small town.

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          Well think only reason Walgreens stays open is the amount people who come to load money to their cashapp or chime card. These people all look the same, and I guess don’t have bank accounts. Add the amount of mouth breathers wearing Trump hats and for some reason do their grocery shopping exclusively at Walgreens is nuts. I mean we have grocery store that much cheaper across the street.

          Also you be surprised how many people still print out 4x6 pictures. We keep running out of the printer paper for them. Got people doing 300 pics at a time. I am like who fuck still does physical pictures like this. And its not all old people.

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    When I was delivering for Gopuff I had someone tip me $10 for delivering a pack of floss to them at midnight. I think time of day figures into this a lot too, since there aren’t many 24 hour stores anymore.

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    My friend doordashed a slurpee from 7/11, and I’ve always wondered who made that slurpee. Did the delivery person have to make and deliver it, or did the clerk have to come out from behind the bullet proof glass to make someone else a slurpee?

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      Clerk probably made it, they have the pickups ready and waiting on the counter for the dashers

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    All the people in here eager to defend how someone wastes their money just reinforces my opinion of the average person these days; most of them are useful idiots.

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    The people using doordash are the same ones complaining they need more money.

    Just another reason for me to think the average person is a complete idiot.