Maybe the company should rebrand as "YellowFresh," or maybe "HelloFlush?"

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[–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I know some people are desperate and not in a good position to lose their job, but fuck it, if I have to urinate I'm going to the bathroom.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago

    Hello Soiled.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    They say shit rolls uphill and I firmly believe piss should too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    They are saying it like it is a bad thing

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Watering the plants.

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    [–] 55 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    My daughter got a UTI from no bathroom breaks in a chain store that is gas and groceries and charging stations. In a class action, the lawyers got all the money and she got a check for less than $20.00 which is $5 less than her doctor co-payment for the UTI.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

    I stopped ordering HelloFresh because it was ultimately more affordable to buy my groceries.

    You stopped ordering HelloFresh because you discovered it may have been touched by hands soaked in piss.

    We are not the same.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

    I'm just over here not ever ordering from these obvious rent-seeking scams.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

    Yeah I looked into them for my elderly parents but all you're essentially getting is a frozen microwave dinner. I can buy those from the store myself for half the price.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

    Hello fresh isn't a frozen microwave dinner company. They mail you ingredient for you to cook your own meals.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    That is literally the point, you chose a recipe they send you the exact ingredients you need, you cook it. Tbh not even a bad idea, less wasteful, easy meal planning, less trips to the grocery store. If it were cheaper i would be using it.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    It would be a great idea to just be inside a grocery store... like a section of just pre portioned meal kits... priced by cost of the actual ingredients found in the store...

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    My local store does that with online shopping. You just add to the cart one of their recipes, then they add those ingredients to your shopping cart and send you a link to the recipe. Only a small range of recipes, though.

    Harris farms in Sydney if anyone is interested.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    They could even intentionally select sets of recipes with lots of the same ingredients to give people options without taking up a lot of space, while also rotating them every so often for variety.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    So ingredients you have to then put together yourself? Isn't that just "groceries?"

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yes, but shipped to you and with a recipe for you to follow.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago*

    Someone forgot to swap their account’s address when they moved, so I got a Hello Fresh box for free when I moved in.

    The food inside is mid and the recipes are super basic. Soooooo much plastic waste too. Everything is wrapped individually and excessively.

    The food was fine though (I ate it after the rightful owner didn’t show up for a week)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Instead of sending you a bunch of mint when the recipe needs 5 leaves, they send you 5 leaves. The idea is less waste.

    The 5 leaves are wrapped in plastic and cost more than a bunch, so you're not "wasting" a bunch of mint you won't use, but you're wasting plastic and money.

    It's for rich people with nothing to do.

    I tried a couple of these companies when they first came out and they had offers through my credit card that made it very cheap. The recipes were alright, but it was fun to cook them with the kids as they didn't get bored with the prep work before we can actually cook, but they aren't cheap and they aren't less wasteful. I can eat left overs, I can't eat the extra plastic.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I see some value for people who don't know how to cook. You pick a recipe that sounds good, they send you all you need, (With no extra, so no worrying about what to do with the left over that will properly end up going to waste) and a guide on how to cook it.

    I considered trying one of these services to find new recipes. Never ended up doing it, seem like a good choice seeing this.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I have been using meal kit services like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh for years. They offer multiple types of meals, from simple “microwave this box then eat the contents” to more refined meals that you make from scratch. The first category doesn’t make sense to me, then you could buy a frozen meal cheaper in the store. The latter category is definitely not for anyone who can’t cook. For example, today I made mashed potato, roasted carrots, pork chops, with orange sauce. I use these services because I like spending 30-40 minutes in my kitchen, preparing a nicely plated, tasty, fresh meal instead of getting takeout or eating leftovers or frozen food. The value they provide is that you don’t need to go grocery shopping, and you don’t need to think about it or plan it other than taking 5 minutes to updating the meal selection every couple weeks.
    In past years with crazy inflation in grocery prices, they have not been able to raise prices as much, so it’s not more expensive than shopping yourself. Unfortunately, they have been cutting costs by lowering the quality and quantity of ingredients, and, apparently, by exploiting their workers.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Hmm, yeah I suppose that does sound a tad to advanced for someone who truly doesn't know how to cook. I still think that if someone was trying to get better at cooking, this service sound like the most approachable way to go about it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    We started with them a week ago, in a country with a lot stronger workers' rights than the US.

    We usually do weekly shopping and cook pretty much every meal at home. My goal was to reduce the cognitive load of meal planning for the week. Seems it costs about the same, and following new recipes it's a cognitive load, too.

    At least we've been eating more varied.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    We also stopped ordering from them because of cost, and like, sometimes they just wouldn't deliver our shit some weeks, with no explanation (even though we were promised an explanation). We'd have planned our grocery shopping around these orders so when one delivery didn't show up, we'd have to go panic shopping and meal planning (we have two kids so meals are important).

    Ultimately it was more expensive, created more stress than normal, and it wasn't worth it at all.

    Also, unless you pick your meals carefully each week, every single fucking meal was like something vegetarian or a panko-breaded fried fish. So boring and bland and tiring and time-consuming to do the breading all the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh there's tons reasons why it never made it. The boxes they come in aren't sealed the best and tend to fall apart. Sometimes the address is bad and gets kicked around in the system for a week. Sometimes the shipping label goes missing and there's no other way to figure out where it goes. Lots of hello fresh ends up in the trash or donated. Though, they should be able to give an explanation as we have to document it each time.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    All those reasons sound like poor routine to me. All fixable and preventable, or a poor reason altogether (like the address being "bad" — we never changed our address while using the service).

    Maybe I'm not understanding, but it's at least totally unacceptable to just not deliver, and with no explanation no less.

    If there was no delivery, I'd expect a phone call apologizing and asking if it's okay to deliver it the next day. Not just silence. They lost a whole family of customers with us. Totally crappy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    80%-90% markup ordering groceries making cheaper places like Aldi and market basket the same prices as stop and shop before the recession by the time you check out.

    That's a huge leap between affordable and saving money and biting the bullet and paying 30$-40$ more for a whole grocery trip.

    Another reason why cars aren't so bad because of you don't have one the markup of ordering groceries is gonna make you wish you had one and it'll drive you mad.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 weeks ago

    Sounds very fresh and appetizing. I definitely want urine-soaked workers handling my premium food products. /s

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    *Tyler Durden enters the chat*

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Glad I saw this before I tried them out.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    Damn. At least make it fun and urinate on each-other

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    I wonder how many workers stopped drinking liquid for the whole day, and who are going to have lifelong medical issues from that, who won't be able to directly connect it to this job later once those problems start popping up?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Why the heck would you piss on yourself though? Just piss somewhere in the facility ... like there is room between pissing in the toilet and your pants.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Think people who work these soft white collar jobs don't understand how common it is for working people to have to piss in bottles during the work day.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Man they’ve really gone to shit lately.

    I liked Hello Fresh. My wife and I were at a stage where we didn’t have a lot of on hand recipes and wanted to outsource thinking about meals while our life was in chaos. Hello Fresh helped us with some basic cooking skills and got us through the rough patch.

    In the following years though we had to drop it as

    1. We had kids and it doesn’t make sense to spend all the time cooking this when your kids won’t eat it
    2. The quality started taking a nosedive

    It’s a shame. They were great several years ago but I feel like current economic conditions and the need for growth over stability is gonna kill them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    HelloFresh Workers Allege They Were Forced to Urinate on Themselves After Being Denied Bathroom Breaks

    Well that don't sound too fresh

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Piss Fresh! Soon to be followed by:

    Number two! Number two! Number two!

    But who will be the first worker to take things up a notch! This show of heart breakingly disturbing Capitalism must go on!

    Then we'll upgrade the advertising from Piss Fresh to Hello Shit!

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    [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    fuck Amerikkka, Nazi ass country

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