What's the most ethical way to get groceries delivered right now?

Post date: 2020-04-01 08:11:25

We are due for more groceries and I hate putting others at risk or supporting awful companies like Instacart right now. Help me weigh my options and make sure I am treating the shoppers as well as I can? My partner was told to assume she has COVID19 and it's likely I gave it to her in the first place, so we have been strictly self-quarantined for going on 3 weeks now and will be for the foreseeable future, so I think delivery is our only option.

These are things I have been doing, and will continue to do:
• tip $30–50 each delivery, which stretches my finances but I am open to arguments that I need to tip more
• make sure to respond immediately to out of stock/replacement notifications and let them know not to stress so they can get in/out quickly
• tell them they do not have to ring our doorbell and let them know our household is sick so that we won't go outside until they are gone
• give them the highest rating

Is there anything else I'm not thinking to do?

And of these grocery delivery options available to me, is there one that is doing anything better for their workers?
• Instacart (I am aware of the Instacart strike and their bullshit response to it)
• Safeway Delivery
• Shipt (I have a trial period for two more weeks, wasn't going to keep it because they mark up both groceries and charge $99/year but if they pay workers better because of it, I am in.)
• Postmates (not sure if we can get a normal sized grocery order through them, they don't seem setup for that.)
• Amazon PrimeNow (I am not currently a member of Prime, I assume they are the worst of the bunch?)
• Imperfect Foods (probably not practical for a lot of our grocery needs)

I could also do something like put in an order for pickup from Target, Fred Meyer, or Safeway and ask my partner's mom to pick it up and drop it off outside our door. She's offered but she's in a higher risk group so we haven't taken her up on it. I'm not sure how risky it would be for her to do the pickup (where they bring groceries to the car).

I'm in Vancouver, WA, and I think those are the extent of the services available to me.

We are probably going to order non-perishables for delivery from Costco at some point, which will hopefully reduce the number of grocery deliveries we'll need. I am also open to ordering non-perishables from other places online. (We don't have freezer space for something like ButcherBox right now, so has to be dry goods.)

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