I'm jealous. I have to spend >120 euro equivalent to get free delivery, and anything less than that will charge anything from 2 euros for a delivery slot after 9pm on a weekday, to up to 8 euros for delivery within a 1 hour window on a weekend. I suppose the one bonus to working ridiculous shift patterns and on-calls - doing a weekly shop at 11pm or 5am is super easy.
The market dictates this.
Like many old towns in Europe there is practically no space to put in a giant hypermarket and till now Carrefour hasn't done well with its small stores while Lidl and Aldi have managed to get some better positions in heavily populated residential areas.
So, rather than having clients go to the competition because driving to the outskirts of town is a pain in the ass in the afternoon, they went this way, turning more into something Amazon-like.
I'm probably pretty unlikely to stand in a store for several minutes scanning 10+ packets of chicken to find out which one has come from my chosen farm/butcher/supply chain,
&Big supermarkets have this as well here. But you'll only use it two or three times and later you'll give up. Because the chicken always comes from the same country, and is slaughtered by the same slaughterhouse, and is processed in the same factory. Even if once every 3 months you see the chicken was shot down in another slaughterhouse you will buy it.
This is where the problems start, how long can the chain trace with accuracy products.
Is this Chorizo made with Spanish pig meat? Or it is made in Spain from meat from Italy, bought from a slaughterhouse in Slovenia, from a pig raised in Poland but bought as a young from Denmark and fed food imported from Germany.
And it might sound like an exaggeration but my family does own a farm and although we sell those to local slaughterhouse I've heard even worse and longer chains throughout the EU.
It's also easier to pay online with bitcoin than it is to stand around for 10+ minutes waiting for a confirmation.
Yesterday I paid for something though Coingate.
They needed 6!!!! 6 god damn confirmations and I timed my tx so fabulous that it went in the mempool right after 3 blocks were mined in less than 10 minutes.
It took 2 hours, imagine this when shopping....
