“Affordability has always been at the heart of Instacart’s mission,” the company said.

Because procreation is The be-all and end-all of people's existence?

Yeah, and at least halve the cost for the employer by rolling off office space, supplies, heating, insurance, etc. to the employee. And the decrease of the carbon footprint works “only if they take the necessary measures at home.” I am so done with virtue signalling that puts the responsibilty on the individual instead of holding corporations and policy makers accountable as the main systemic culprits.

> I am so done with virtue signalling that puts the responsibilty on the individual instead of holding corporations and policy makers accountable as the main systemic culprits.

I agree with you on this point, but staying in one place instead of commuting to and from work every day really does reduce the carbon footprint of most drivers. For people who take transit or bike to work, this may be a moot point.

Commuting,as a neccessity, is also for the policy makers to fix imo, after they have put billions (trillions?) into road infrastructure. Channel it to public/mass transport if you are serious about decreasing carbon footprint of individuals in that aspect.

I agree with that. Plenty of European and East Asian cities have massive commuter load with a way smaller per-commuter energy footprint than in the USA.

You still have to build an office building you wouldn't need, run the AC and heater, clean it, etc.

Yeah, it was a business (model) war. Apple on their part juggled the constant names for hardware acceleration (e.g. video codecs) with every minor OS release for a time with Flash defaulting to software rendering. That’s why you could fry eggs on your Mac trackpad while watching youtube videos if you didn’t keep up with obligatory FP minor version updates. Fun times….

That (“card by phone”) is a problem of trust. Whatever happened to that concept? I’ve given away my CC details probably hundreds of times in the pre-internet era (travel agencies, hotels, phone-order, etc.), because I had the details of and trust for the opposite end. That trust is increased through a platform provider is a fallacy imo. The only two times I experienced dodgy charges to my CC that needed refund were because of database leaks/breaches. Go figure ;)

Surely you recognize that this is anecdotal evidence, though? Are you suggesting that people are less likely to experience CC fraud if they give out their information to each vendor instead of using a central mediator like PayPal? The reason we used to give that information out so readily in the past was a combination of not knowing better and not having better methods, and it allowed for a lot of low-level financial crime, despite the fact that you were lucky enough not to experience it yourself.

Yes, and times have changed, maybe because of the “market pressure” by those platforms or simply because they were just a minute ahead with their value prop for restaurants sleeping on the digital transformation. Lately (new) restaurants in my experience just post delivery contact info and menu to their facebook page or instagram and cannot even be found on delivery service platforms. Seems to work for them.

So the “too much” benefit you are talking about is aiu basically a) “consistent layout” b) “payment processors”? Isn”t that just a single digit improvement in terms of convenience (aka the laziness factor ;) In terms of “insight as a consumer”, it is the other way around where I live. Third party platforms almost always have only a stripped down menu available, because restaurants adapt and improve for meals that can be processed quickly and/or prepared in bulk in order to not pay up towards individual/labor intensive food on those platforms. I switched back to order by phone and pay at the door a long time ago to get the true value out of the restaurants and not a platform, which’s value prop is to be a man in the middle with a web front end.

I wouldn't know about most of the restaurants in my area without these third parties. That's the insight I'm talking about.

Like I said. The alternative is not me getting better service or product or whatever. It's buying from them at all.

Yes, those “facades” are super useful. Problem is that most are US centric and simply break for international users, since streaming rights by country is a nightmarish jungle.

I know this is anecdotal, but... : I've been staying at a little fisher's village in Pelion (Greece) during summer for the last 13 years and yes, it is a dire situation, worsening year over year. Local fishermen are basically in despair, because close to the coast everything's depleted and they cannot reach the (already scarce) fishing grounds further off the coast with their type of boats. Their livelihodd is pretty much destroyed. Saw the MedFish4Ever initiative mentioned on the page, but clicking the link yields a "requested page could not be found". Go figure...

And to me as a continental european, Plaid always triggers https://youtu.be/LU8seZlfhw4

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