Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by sokoloff on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:11PM (#28019366)

They were busier (for pickup) this winter than this summer. I checked my own order history at our previously favorite pizza place. We ordered about 5x/month from Nov ‘20-Mar ‘21 when large cheeses were $9+tax and there was often a line for pickup. We now order around 1x/month (at $13+tax) and walk directly to the counter.

If anything, CV19 is much less a safety concern now than before.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by RobertKerans on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:20PM (#28019457)

sorry, it just seemed a bizarre thing to comment on: yes the sales may have been higher, and anecdotally you may have seen longer pickup lines (at what times?), but you gotta understand why it reads as a joke, because regardless of above, in-person business is almost universally likely to have been lower, restricted to pickups clustered at specific times

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by f0xytr0xy on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:07PM (#28019861)

As a VP does that $4 difference really mean anything to you?

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by sokoloff on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:10PM (#28019886)

We've switched many of our family's Friday night pizza nights to "make pizza at home". Can I afford $4 more? Of course. Do I see the same level of value in a ~50% more expensive pizza? Of course not.

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