My read on it is that companies don’t give a shit about customer wellbeing and are almost solely interested in profit. If the impact on customer wellbeing is very large, sometimes they’ll care, but 20 microcovids/customer is way below that threshold.
My guess would have been that there were a variety of people, and that many people were going to great lengths to avoid getting covid, so at least their patronage would be altered by the covid dose one gets with one’s coffee. But that doesn’t seem true.
Yeah, I share similar feelings here. I sorta sense that there’s enough people who care about reducing their covid exposure such that, in pursuit of profit, companies would adjust to have more ordering windows and outdoor seating. I’m not sure if the demand doesn’t exist, or if companies haven’t taken enough advantage of the opportunity.
As an anecdote, I went to Starbucks one day and tried to get my coffee in the drive thru instead of by walking inside and ordering. I was on my bike, if that matters. I had waited for a good three or four minutes and had a couple cars behind me at that point. Then a manager came outside and yelled to me that I can’t be there if I’m not in a vehicle and said something about customer safety.
My read on it is that companies don’t give a shit about customer wellbeing and are almost solely interested in profit. If the impact on customer wellbeing is very large, sometimes they’ll care, but 20 microcovids/customer is way below that threshold.
Yeah, I share similar feelings here. I sorta sense that there’s enough people who care about reducing their covid exposure such that, in pursuit of profit, companies would adjust to have more ordering windows and outdoor seating. I’m not sure if the demand doesn’t exist, or if companies haven’t taken enough advantage of the opportunity.
As an anecdote, I went to Starbucks one day and tried to get my coffee in the drive thru instead of by walking inside and ordering. I was on my bike, if that matters. I had waited for a good three or four minutes and had a couple cars behind me at that point. Then a manager came outside and yelled to me that I can’t be there if I’m not in a vehicle and said something about customer safety.