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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by Zarel on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:33AM (#22716691)
It seems to me that that they already have a 4-day-long queue, and the error message is in fact a "the queue is full" error.

Why not a longer queue? I don't know, but I'd guess people forget about their order and buy redundant things, causing support and customer satisfaction problems, if the queue is longer than 4 days.

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Re:I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries by jedieaston on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:37AM (#22718894)
Probably because if I'm going to wait four days anyway, I'll probably just say "Gee, guess I'll just drive down there and get it".
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