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Post by jenjie on May 25, 2015 0:12:54 GMT
[quote author=" ktdoesntscrap" source="/post/582696/thread" timestamp="1432393122" There is NO way I would wait 15 mins at Dunkin Donuts..or any fast food place to place an order... [/quote][ But if you're stuck and can't get out of line you will have to...
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Post by kittens on May 25, 2015 0:53:55 GMT
What's annoying is when someone makes sure their order is correct while still sitting at the window. I will never drive away without checking my order. Why would you? How are you going to get it fixed after you drive away? Nope. I'm checking while I'm at the window so I can get the problem fixed while I'm at the window. Yup! That! I won't drive away without checking my order either!
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Post by bostonmama on May 25, 2015 1:25:41 GMT
I'm completely fine with you placing an order for 30 items in the drive-thru, but PLEASE for the love of God do it in one transaction. If I hear "I have 3 separate orders" when I'm behind someone in the drive-thru, I will glare at them the rest of the time I'm behind them.
I would like to see a "one transaction only" policy aroumd here.
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Post by 3dcrafter on May 25, 2015 2:14:23 GMT
I'm glad you said that and not me It really does enable almost everything to be done by car though doesn't it!! In the area where I live, you can order groceries online and then pick them up in a drive up type lane/line at the grocery store where they load them into the car for you (I believe you have to order a min. of $60 worth). I've never used it, because I'm just too cheap to pay the extra fee for using the service. ....and you can also have them delivered at home as well...for a higher fee of course.
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Post by patin on May 25, 2015 5:23:00 GMT
I am of the opinion that both common sense & common courtesy are just not that common anymore.
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Post by gar on May 25, 2015 8:42:42 GMT
I'm glad you said that and not me It really does enable almost everything to be done by car though doesn't it!! In the area where I live, you can order groceries online and then pick them up in a drive up type lane/line at the grocery store where they load them into the car for you (I believe you have to order a min. of $60 worth). I've never used it, because I'm just too cheap to pay the extra fee for using the service. ....and you can also have them delivered at home as well...for a higher fee of course. Home delivery of groceries is very common here too and the cost depending on the time slot you choose but it's very convenient and pretty reasonable. We don't have the order then go and collect option though - as far as I know
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 25, 2015 8:58:26 GMT
In the area where I live, you can order groceries online and then pick them up in a drive up type lane/line at the grocery store where they load them into the car for you (I believe you have to order a min. of $60 worth). I've never used it, because I'm just too cheap to pay the extra fee for using the service. ....and you can also have them delivered at home as well...for a higher fee of course. Home delivery of groceries is very common here too and the cost depending on the time slot you choose but it's very convenient and pretty reasonable. We don't have the order then go and collect option though - as far as I know Waitrose supermarkets, and others, do the order online and pick up at store option with groceries gar as well as order online and deliver to home.
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Post by gar on May 25, 2015 9:10:31 GMT
Home delivery of groceries is very common here too and the cost depending on the time slot you choose but it's very convenient and pretty reasonable. We don't have the order then go and collect option though - as far as I know Waitrose supermarkets, and others, do the order online and pick up at store option with groceries gar as well as order online and deliver to home. Oh yes! Of course, I had forgotten about that. It's not a service I use
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Post by Sam on May 25, 2015 10:16:13 GMT
Waitrose supermarkets, and others, do the order online and pick up at store option with groceries gar as well as order online and deliver to home. Oh yes! Of course, I had forgotten about that. It's not a service I use I've definitely seen the order and drive up to collect at at least one Tesco (Greenock) and I'm sure at more than just that one and I 'think' I have at an Asda but can't remember where. I haven't actually seen anyone use it though!
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 25, 2015 10:51:10 GMT
Oh yes! Of course, I had forgotten about that. It's not a service I use I've definitely seen the order and drive up to collect at at least one Tesco (Greenock) and I'm sure at more than just that one and I 'think' I have at an Asda but can't remember where. I haven't actually seen anyone use it though! People working in Newcastle city centre use the Waitrose order online and collect from store option so they don't have to either shop in their lunch hour or be in for a delivery. Sainsbury, Asda and Tesco all offer that service in this area and it's well used by people who work - though the home delivery of groceries option is the most popular of course. We were just saying before that Tesco was the first to have online grocery ordering and home delivery over 20 years ago - and other big supermarkets followed shortly after that! Amazing!! And with all the big department stores offering just about every non food item for online ordering now, home delivery or pick up at nearest store options there's not much we really need to go out for now as long as we have a computer!! The only thing we don't have much of in this area is drive through banking - we've got drive through McD's, KFC, Krispy Kreme, Starbucks etc.
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Post by *KAS* on May 25, 2015 12:43:41 GMT
Yesterday morning my friend and I went through thr Starbucks drive thru and the woman in front had 5 separate orders. I don't mean 5 drinks, I mean paid for 5 separate transactions. Of course I didn't know what when I placed my order and got stuck for 10 minutes.
We went back to the same Starbucks yesterday afternoon (16 hour work day to justify this!) and my friend went inside. The girl in front of her ordered 10 drinks (for all of her Hooters coworkers). LOL. Can't win for losing there!
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Post by anniebeth24 on May 25, 2015 12:59:38 GMT
Yesterday morning my friend and I went through thr Starbucks drive thru and the woman in front had 5 separate orders. I don't mean 5 drinks, I mean paid for 5 separate transactions. Of course I didn't know what when I placed my order and got stuck for 10 minutes. We went back to the same Starbucks yesterday afternoon (16 hour work day to justify this!) and my friend went inside. The girl in front of her ordered 10 drinks (for all of her Hooters coworkers). LOL. Can't win for losing there! Unfortunately, Starbucks encourages people to place several separate orders with their rewards program. You get a "Star" with each purchase, not each beverage or food item. If you're ordering 5 drinks, it benefits you to pay separately for each one. Irritating. . .
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Post by Why on May 25, 2015 13:34:29 GMT
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Post by its me mg on May 25, 2015 15:56:30 GMT
I think McDonald's will actually find itself more profitable if they limit their menu and if they limit the drive through. Can you expand on this a bit?? The more cars they can get through, the more money they'll make. even though the items are limited, you're going to find most of the "usual" stuff. In the long run, the customers they piss off by eliminating the angus 1/3 pounder off the drive thru menu will pale in comparison to the number of people they crank out who just want a big mac or a mcnugget.
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Post by amblet on May 25, 2015 21:08:40 GMT
I would love to have grocery delivery. I hate grocery shopping.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 25, 2015 21:45:58 GMT
Can you expand on this a bit?? The more cars they can get through, the more money they'll make. even though the items are limited, you're going to find most of the "usual" stuff. In the long run, the customers they piss off by eliminating the angus 1/3 pounder off the drive thru menu will pale in comparison to the number of people they crank out who just want a big mac or a mcnugget. Not one of the many McD's in our area ever has a line. I think people are just tired of crappy McD's food. If I stop at a McD's its for beverages only and every once in a blue moon a breakfast sandwich.
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Post by Sam on May 25, 2015 21:48:30 GMT
I've definitely seen the order and drive up to collect at at least one Tesco (Greenock) and I'm sure at more than just that one and I 'think' I have at an Asda but can't remember where. I haven't actually seen anyone use it though! People working in Newcastle city centre use the Waitrose order online and collect from store option so they don't have to either shop in their lunch hour or be in for a delivery. Sainsbury, Asda and Tesco all offer that service in this area and it's well used by people who work - though the home delivery of groceries option is the most popular of course. I'm talking about the service where you drive up outside the store and don't have to leave your car to collect the shopping!
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Post by txdancermom on May 25, 2015 22:04:27 GMT
imho the drive through is for simple quick orders. if your order is large and/or complicated, go inside, then you can be sure you are getting what you wanted.
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 25, 2015 22:26:56 GMT
People working in Newcastle city centre use the Waitrose order online and collect from store option so they don't have to either shop in their lunch hour or be in for a delivery. Sainsbury, Asda and Tesco all offer that service in this area and it's well used by people who work - though the home delivery of groceries option is the most popular of course. I'm talking about the service where you drive up outside the store and don't have to leave your car to collect the shopping! Yes, that's what I'm talking about also! Well, you maybe leave the car long enough after getting to the store's collection point to make sure there's enough room in the boot for the shopping to be loaded properly! M&S is another store which has the collect by car collection point at all main big stores in this area....though in that case instead of ordering online you shop for food etc., in the store and then after check out it is taken into the cooled collection area to be kept until you are ready to drive round to collect it.
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Post by bigbundt on May 25, 2015 22:44:09 GMT
Yeah people have no common sense these days.
We have a Zaxby's and a McDonalds here with notes on their drive thru machines that says one transaction per car.
I pick up breakfast from McDs most Fridays for my DH when he works from home. The one I go to has a large senior population around there and it is sometimes really frustrating being behind a lady requesting "soft scrambled eggs" and then too scared to merge into the pay lane when there are two ordering lines. I swear one time this guy let no less than five cars go ahead of him because he wouldn't pull up enough to show the other lane that he was next. So frustrating!
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Post by **Angie** on May 27, 2015 4:47:10 GMT
If my order would take that long to fill, I'd go inside. My thought is that it would be a sizable amount of items and I'd want to check that I got everything before I left.
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Post by LiLi on May 27, 2015 4:59:14 GMT
I'm ordering for a family of 8 sometimes more than eight for guests. If I am stopping on the way home and I'm alone, I'm gonna go in the drive thru. You think someone us gonna help me carry all that shiz by myself? No way. Common courtesy my butt. They probably wouldn't even hold the door open for me. Most places will have us pull forward to a spot or something. If they don't, that's on the store not the customer. Maybe the longest vice waited is like ten minutes. Patience... Also a common courtesy.
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Post by JoP on May 27, 2015 6:49:30 GMT
I've never used a Drive Thru at home or in the USA - too scared of doing something wrong, and this thread has confirmed I'm better off going inside to order
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Post by lbp on May 27, 2015 14:04:04 GMT
And I officially need more caffeine or something because I read the title as "limit the number of murders in the drive through"
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Post by scrappinmom3 on May 27, 2015 15:04:37 GMT
Okay, so a couple of weeks ago, I went to a Subway near my house that has a drive-thru. I purposely went inside because I had a long order. The order, coupled with the slow sandwich artist pissed off the older gentleman behind me that was scowling at me. When my order was complete, I turned to the crabby man and the nice lady behind him and apologized that my order took so long and that that was the reason that I didn't go thru the drive-thru. He sneered at me. Oh well.
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Post by epeanymous on May 27, 2015 15:09:46 GMT
Okay, so a couple of weeks ago, I went to a Subway near my house that has a drive-thru. I purposely went inside because I had a long order. The order, coupled with the slow sandwich artist pissed off the older gentleman behind me that was scowling at me. When my order was complete, I turned to the crabby man and the nice lady behind him and apologized that my order took so long and that that was the reason that I didn't go thru the drive-thru. He sneered at me. Oh well. As you will find from thread after thread on here, your very existence as a human inconveniences others, so I would not worry about it too much.
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