Meal Delivery Services

Don't you feel at least some level of guilt scamming rich people out of their money, knowing they could save so much money by buying the ingredients themselves, or get better quality food for the same price by going to a restaurant?

Sage

>>8879722

For lazy people who 'don't have time' in their 'busy' working lives to shop and prepare basic produce.

Economically unfriendly due to all the petrol/gas consumed to deliver these packages to people at the door when they could walk to the shops instead.

Prices are marked-up (obviously) beyond what any sensible, financially savvy person would pay.

Most people I find that subscribe to such services tend to be people looking to be healthy whilst putting minimum effort into achieving such goals. For them the mere visage of 'healthy' is enough for them.

Encourages culinary degeneracy as people lose the ability (and willingness) to cook and create and pass down family recipes which are a strong basis of happy families through the generations as something which binds and keeps people across generations and allows them to gather.

They are nothing more than 'posh' marked up TV dinners delivered to the door for the middle class.

I think they're absolutely ridiculous and serve no purpose, but idiots will buy them cause they want to pretend they're chefs but are too afraid to fuck up so they have to have everything preportioned and shit.

I can't really talk, I buy shit from schwans, but damn, at least I occasionally make my own food.

>>8879729
Well it's not like people who shop at walmart or aldi's are buying the boxes, it's usually upper class white people. They pay for the convince to get that shit shipped right to their fucking front door. They should get the shit themselves, those lazy fucks.

>>8879733
I agree with most of this except for the last part, the ingredients used are actually of a higher quality than you would typically find at a normal supermarket. By no means are they gourmet, but they are definitely of a higher caliber than a $2 Banquet Salisbury Steak TV dinner.

Would it technically be grocery piracy if I stole your recipes and used my own ingredients?

>>8879734
I don't like when it is advertised as "pre-portioned," because people will assume that ,"The whole bottle should go in here, " and that assumption shouldn't be wrong, but at least a quarter of the bottles of liquids such as sriracha, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, etc. are filled by people by hand, so the amount will vary. Nothing's worse than too much soy sauce in perfectly fine stir fry.

>>8879747
Hmm, that's a good question. When I got hired on, I signed a confidentiality agreement not to share how we assemble packages and generally operate, so I am not allowed to say, for instance, what the next meal recipe for the next week or so is before it is announced. BUT, the customer is really paying for the shipping of the food, while the recipe sheet is kinda just along with it, but also it's not like their posting it on their websites. Idk honestly.

>>8879747
>>8879757
but really it's not like their patenting a fucking pizza margarita recipe so fucking go for it

Also, if anyone want's to hear some stories about working for Blue Apron, I have a few.