I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries

Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by gruez on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:32PM (#22715889)

>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.

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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by reaperducer on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:17AM (#22716369)

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.

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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by squeaky-clean on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:58PM (#22715991)

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.

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