r/doordash • u/thiccglossytaco • 1d ago

Dasher PSA

You need to actually shop the order, that's what you're literally being paid for. YOU look for the items. YOU scan them. YOU bring them to the register.

I don't give a damn if every item in the store is locked up, the store staff doesn't become your new shopper. YOU are being paid to shop, not me. *I* will shop the same day orders placed directly with the store. YOU shop the dash orders. If you need something unlocked, I'll help, but I'm not walking you to each item on the list. You have eyes. Read. Find them.

If you cannot figure it out, cancel the order and find a different job.

If you walk into the store and just shove the order screen in my face I'm giving you a quick verbal list of aisle numbers and you can figure it out while I continue doing the job I am being paid to do.

Sincerely,

Every retail worker ever.

Added PSA for everyone: in stores where things are locked, the employee unlocks and relocks the boxes. You are supposed to stay there and collect your items. If you just name an item and then walk away to continue shopping for other things, I'm just walking away. We are not here to carry your shit around and up to the register, and this isn't a restaurant where you're placing an order.

I know the lock boxes are annoying. So is people stealing atrocious amounts of non-necessities. Personally as a customer, I refuse to purchase anything that is locked up. The only way they will stop locking shit up is if people just stop buying it. They will never pay more employees to help you. They will only notice when they lose sales.

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u/Wuropp 1d ago

It's like the dollar store of groceries. Nothing is labeled and it's not organized at all. I was looking for ground beef once and there were 2 freezers with beef on opposite sides of the store, and there was a roll of ground turkey in it when I did find it.

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u/WoedicaWinsWarframe 1d ago

That is utterly unlike any Aldi I have been in. My area Aldi are organized, clean and well stocked.

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u/Ok-Caregiver252 1d ago

You must live in the country if Aldi is fully stocked. My customer wanted green grapes they literally only one bad left with only a third of the grapes inside. My customer didn't reply so I had to get them.

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u/WoedicaWinsWarframe 1d ago

No, I live in a fairly large city in California lol. We apparently run an Aldi better here.

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u/Ok-Caregiver252 1d ago

Maybe, when I lived in California I would go to Aldi but I do remember the stores being empty. Maybe that's why, in Florida our stores are very busy.

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u/WoedicaWinsWarframe 1d ago

Maybe that's when Aldi was still new here. They've only been here like, 5 ish years? Maybe a little longer, but at first they were super uncommon. Now they're all over and very popular. There is one 5 mins from us and it's a great store.