Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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Bombardment of carbs? It's never a problem as long as the glucose has a place to go. I explained why fat is the issue with type two diabetics. They tend to have more lipids in their cells, which prevents the glucose from getting in. I am a type 2 diabetic, and I am a fit person. I was shocked when I found out. At first I tried low carb to control it. Got my A1C down but when I took a glucose tolerance test, I failed miserably. So this meant that I was still insulin resistance. So I started to do a ton of research and discovered how to reverse it. I eat over 400 carbs a day now, my A1C is running in the 5.2 to 5.3 range when I get tested every 3 months. AND I do well on glucose tolerance test, which means my cells are now insulin sensitive. All my other blood work is great too, hormones, everything (I am 55). I usually have a cheat day where I eat anything and a lot of it, but because I have an optimized metabolism from eating primarily whole food 6 days a week, I get away with it. I'm not saying everyone should eat high carb low fat, just type 2 diabetics, we know this works to reverse the issue of insulin resistance. People without type 2 should eat what works for them, is sustainable and keeps them healthy long term (very important). So whether that is high fat, low carb, high carb, whatever. Again, as long as they are healthy in doing so.
As for what humans ate 1000s of years ago? Well, human like species we know were around 2.5 million years ago and probably further back than that. For homsapiens we know they had a amylase enzyme 120,000 years ago. https://elifesciences.org/articles/47523. But what people ate most likely depended on where they were and what enzymes they had to handle to the food in the area. For example, we know the Inuit tribe has an enzyme the rest of us do not have, that is why you should disregard all these so called fitness experts and chiropractors on You Tube that promote eating a certain way and using Inuits as an example of why it would work for everyone.
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Theoretically no different than a fast food drive thru. Faster customer churn rate. I believe what some of these stores are running into, is that the convenience is not translating into larger or more frequent orders. At least not enough to justify the labor resources required. Like the pizza delivery wars of the past, each store is pushing faster and faster delivery times, which leaves stores with a problem. Either chew through a few employees who get burned out and quit, necessitating hiring another, or increasing labor to handle the advertised turnaround time.
I'm sure each store has the numbers, and it would be interesting to see how the number of orders per day and the avg order value per day changed with the addition of curbside pick up.
It's reasonably priced selections are ok but not great. Small simple store lay out. Prices are usually very competitive. But to each their own.
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LOL the reason they do it is so they don't have to send employees out to wrangle carts. I usually don't even get a cart just get a box and put in it what I need.
That's the nice thing about variety we can each do what we chose.
Son on east coast shops at Shop Rite. You put in a quarter to get your cart and get it back when you return it. It is not a big freaking deal. But his store thankfully doesn’t have a Chiefs store wedged between the Wahlburgers and the walk-in medical clinic with it’s waiting room right by the pharmacy like the HyVee his brothers go to in KC. The whole walking by the sick people to get your meds was enough to get them to at least go to CVS for their meds, as they inherited my asthma apparently.
When I worked at Aisles Online, a supervisor told me HyVee loses approximately $40 on every online order due to labor costs -- one person to shop the order (although when I worked there, you could have three people shopping one order -- one in main grocery, one in refrigerated, and one in frozen), one person to ring up and bag the items, another person to bring it to your car. Maybe that supervisor was full of it, but it makes sense.
That sounds like a significant rounding up of labor costs (there’s no way they’re paying $20/hr and there’s no way it takes 2 hours to shop, check, and bag even my absurd orders) and completely ignoring any revenue. Grocery is a low-margin industry, and I don’t see how they would promote Aisles so actively if they are losing 5-6 figures a week (see what I did there with the rounding?).
That would have to be some very inefficient employees to lose $40 on a single order..
When I'm there each shopper is simultaneously shopping about 6 orders, and I highly doubt it takes them more than an hour to shop those 6 ($2.50 labor per order). Ringing up and bagging a $100 order takes what, 5 minutes max ($1.25 labor per order)? Same with loading, rarely takes more than 5 minutes ($1.25 labor per order).
I wouldn't be surprised if they lose money on them, but no way I believe it's anywhere close to $40/order. Assuming $15/hour pay above - even if you double/triple those figures it's not even close to that.
Sure, but those 5 people could handle 5+ (probably more) orders in a single $13 hour.. it's not like you have 5 people working on 1 single shop for an hour lol.
True. I also wonder if they were adding in the orders they had to refund or fix because shoppers made errors. And that happened a lot. Some of the teenagers I shopped with were clueless about picking produce. One actually asked me if the black spots on the raspberries were something bad. I told her, "If you wouldn't buy them and eat them yourself, don't pick them for a customer." I feel like that's common sense, but apparently not.
Been using Wal-Mart online grocery for years now. They honestly probably do it better than everyone. My only knock is that WalMart runs out of common things sway too often but they are usually pretty good with substitutions.
Man this hit me right in the feels. There was nothing better as a kid than picking through the Shasta, Fastco, or HyVee pop flats and building your own variety pack. Damn those were the days.
Tell me you're rich without telling me you're rich...
HyVee Strawberry is one of my all time favorite fruity sodas.
So solid. My mom would make us strawberry floats and they were amazing.
