Reminds me of the last time I was in Texas and somebody called the cops on me because I didn’t have a car
That’s why I typically bring 2 cars when I go to Texas.
One in your luggage, one in your carry on.
My belt buckle is a car
One car for you, one for your gun
In drive through?
Yeah, had to get an Uber just to get some Whataburger
I’m sure it’s a safety thing. You get hit by a car going through drive through it’s probably the fast food company’s liability.
Bleh
me and my homies using the drive thru
I know it’s more expensive but this is why I always use the Uber black option.
Do the white drivers not wanna go to drive thru or what
I don’t think that’s what Uber black is.
I figured but I couldn’t figure out what the connection between Black and drive-thru is. There’s no Uber in my country, we have Bolt and sturr.
That is insane
I dunno. I get plenty of drugs from Uber drivers and there’s less paperwork and they deliver them right to me. . It’s not a terrible alternative really.
Insane*
*applies to america only, may have severe side effects such as latent brain problems, diminished capacity for thinking and lethargic behavior (amongst other symptoms).
I genuinely thought this was a joke, fake or satire.
North American in a nutshell
Why can’t the European mind comprehend hell?
How the fuck is this acceptable?
It is not. Welcome to the fossil fuel dystopia.
I don’t like it here.
Places that require a car for the drive thru are just leaving money on the table. I never understood that.
This is entirely a corpo policy to limit liability. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that they want to prevent people from standing in the drive thru since that carries the risk of them being hit/injured/harmed while waiting in the line.
Its literally a problem because corpos don’t want to get sued for an idiot driver gassing their way through a drive thru and mowing someone down.
Honestly, given how lawsuit happy many people are, I’m not terribly surprised. What does surprise me though, is that they don’t have a walk-up window in a pedestrian safe area. I guess the logic is that the pedestrians can just go inside, but when the drive thru is open late, after the dining/walk in area closes, you end up with stupid situations like the OP.
I hate corpos.
I think another part of it is they dont want “undesirables” entering the store. In my area the main entrance on the main road to a drug store is never open it is always locked. There 5 or 6 cashiers/checks outs on that side of the store that sit empty because they can’t manage security for 2 entrances. Instead the rear, car parking lot entrance is the only option. The rear entrance has only 1 cashier
If you walk to the store from the south you literally have to walk nearly an extra block to get all the way around to the back of the store. The same goes for a small mall nearby, some of the entrances are locked for just no reason at all which adds a lot to travel time, especially if you have mobility issues.
This can definitely be a factor. Depending on the area and other demographics.
Personally, I live in what appears to be a mostly “white” small community in a fairly rural town. Population is less than 10k. The local fast food chain closes the dining room before the drive thru here too. We’re too small of a community to have undesirables, and we’re 15 minutes from anywhere, and 20-30 minutes from any somewhat major city.
They still do it. The brain rot of corpos has no end.
They’ll be cruel to people who need accommodation because they can. They’re horrible people.
I’d assume they want to discriminate against people who are too poor to have cars because they think those people are more likely to be difficult customers, and since most people have cars they don’t lose much business by doing this.
Wealthier people are by far the most difficult customers. They think they’re entitled to everything because they’re “rich” and “above” wage slaves, so they get pissy and aggressive the moment something doesn’t go their way (and sometimes they’ll just make a ruckus for fun). Source: I worked in a few fast food restaurants in the south before
It was crazy for me working at a mexican restaurant and the only people who got argumentative over the $13 for a burrito with just 4 oz of meat (total rip-off) were the ones who could definitely afford it, while the poorer people just accepted it. And the wealthy people always came in again (usually regulars) and expected it to be more every time.
When i worked on pools, the millionaire with a massive “cottage” would argue over $5 worth of product or try to get a refund for unused chemicals the end of the season.
The family thats working hard to make ends meet barely ever argued. Our prices were fair and they want their kids to be able to enjoy their pool. They were always way more appreciative to the employees doing the work and were more likely to offer water, beer, and snacks.
I would 100% stand in the drive through and hold up traffic till they gave me my prescription.
Why do you need a car to use the drive through?
I hate this community because my instinct to most posts is to downvote until I remember the OP is laughing at it, not with it. I guess that’s where the 10 downvotes come from.
Is there a thought to not subscribe to subs where your intent is to downvote everything? Or is this every lemming mission?
Is there a thought to actually try to understand what is being said before uselessly getting into an argument? Or is this every lemming mission?
I hate this community because my instinct to most posts is to downvote
Ah, I see the problem. You forgot to read more than half of the post you’re replying to. Can’t say that’s on me.
So they basically saying you should buy a car if you want some meds, or at the very least rent one.
I used a bicycle in a Walgreens pharmacy drive though for the whole summer, and then one day a manager told me they won’t serve me there anymore because of “safety reasons”.
What they meant was for their safety, from liability, like if a car hit me.
I don’t use Walgreens for prescriptions anymore.
I’d pretend to be driving an invisible car.
They should put a courtesy tricycle beside the entrance.
If you have to close one, why not the drive through? If you make people come in, they might remember they need to buy something else
Because let’s say you’re the only person who showed up to work today. Trying to fill prescriptions puts your back to the rest of the store, maybe even takes you behind shelves. Makes it easy for you to get held up. Also shoplifting but I’m more concerned about your safety. With the drive through, you can give desperate sick people their prescriptions, and people who want other stuff can get it elsewhere.
Because opening up the entire interior of the store requires staffing and security… Having a service window with heavy glass and a two way box requires one person who does not need to be able to take care of themselves security wise.
Service windows exist in other countries too.
What doesn’t exist is the drive-thru.
That’s fair
I’ve known enough people that would take their business elsewhere if this one didn’t have a drive thru. They think they are saving time by using the drive thru even when the other location is an additonal 10 minutes of driving away.
That would piss
underuber drivers off pretty good.Better than over them, I suppose.
Dammit, stupid autocorrect.
We’ve all been there!
For real: if you don’t have a car or bike, just tank your Uber
social credit scorerating.I mean, I don’t even think an Uber driver would accept that, there isn’t a ‘go through the drive through’ option, and if you tricked the Uber driver they would just not do it.
Uber does a pretty good job of catching a driver off guard by not making the destination clear in all cases. But the pickup and drop off is the same location. So a driver can easily just mark the trip complete and kick the passengers out of their car and collect their minimum fare.
They’d probably just cancel it. The last thing they would want is to get banned from the app for accusations of stealing or fraud. As long as you don’t cancel too much Uber and Lyft are fine with it.
Yup, minimum charge with a relatively long ride time. Quickest way to get a cancellation from a driver.
