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But unfortunately there are a limited number of per day delivery slots, so bots will own anything FIFO. They will monitor the page and be the first ones in. There also aren’t really fully standardized addresses per se, it’s actually kinda weird, but what’s stopping anyone using the apartment number next to them and receiving the delivery when notified?

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>But unfortunately there are a limited number of per day delivery slots

I guess the idea is to put everyone in one queue, rather than having separate queues per day/slot. Presumably this isn't an issue since everyone's on lockdown anyways, so they're always available to accept a delivery.

But there are only so many delivery people. 1,000 delivery people simply cannot give 2,000 people their groceries within a 1 hour window. The timeslots manage when the deliveries occur. People also sleep at different times, and some essential employees are still working, so you can't simply deliver the groceries to everyone without a known time.

I guess the idea is to put everyone in one queue, rather than having separate queues per day/slot.

And now you've just excluded all the doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and their families from using the service.

Just let people order far in advance then?

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