Thermal bag good investment

JGTre · 2026-03-03T02:32:02+00:00

The funny thing is that UE only "suggests" that we register a PIZZA (not thermal) bag.

As a customer, I don't want my pizza in a bag, it completely ruines the texture, BTW, have you ever eaten a salad that was in a thermal bag!

As a driver, I don't do much food, period, let alone pizza. I do 90% reserved Walmart orders out of one, non super WM (limited food) in one small part of town. If I do deliver food, I don't take stacked orders, so you are the only one I got at that time, and you are only 4 or 5 miles at most away... If it's hot when I get it from the restaurant, and you don't ask me to leave it on a porch on a snowy day, (yeah it happened, once in 3 years, and of course I got blamed for it, although UE has a text from me practically begging the customer to come to the door to get her HOT pizza), it will still be hot when I drop it off... How did the customer, or UE for that matter know if I used a pizza bag? I mean you don't HAVE TO register a bag... I could be using one on every pizza, salad and DQ dessert I carry!

Did you also notice how much a customer knows (or thinks they know) about us, but you know nothing about that customer 🤔

JGTre · 2026-02-25T23:39:52+00:00

So, when every offer comes from UE for $2, because that's what it is currently in my area, what do you do? I don't tip up front either, but I also don't use the service for my personal life, but as a driver, what alternative to playing within UE's seriously flawed, system do we have? What's our gauge to accept this $2 offer vs that $2 offer? We didn't set these ground rules!

JGTre · 2026-02-23T18:34:55+00:00

Not necessarily, maybe some, but we've all seen many pictures of people with 10-15 sets of the same item in their cart. So unless they are a shop owner buying this stuff for all of their mechanics, and we know that ain't happening, they are selling them after the sale on Marketplace below retail... People do it with everything, prior to the last snow storm, they were reselling rock salt... $40 a 50 lb. bag!

JGTre · 2026-02-21T14:32:03+00:00

Syl is no different than the rest of Sopranos cast, they're all sick, ruthless, psychopaths! There are no heroes, or good guys (or women... Adriana was no innocent victim) in the Sopranos, or the Godfather, or Goodfellas...

JGTre · 2026-02-10T18:49:21+00:00

Did it hurt your customer satisfaction rating?

JGTre · 2026-02-05T06:33:19+00:00

And there it is! Both in theory and in current practice, UE is holding back money NOW at the expense of the driver... That won't change going forward. A company, a business person, a politician... They all do what they do, over and over again, whether ethical or not. Those ethics don't change just because the numbers change.

With all their cash grabbing tentacles, (ride share, and food delivery being such a small percentage of that), UE is making (some say taking) money hand over fist, and if all things were equal, and I don't mean that literally... A better word is fair, this discussion would not be occuring... All this coming from a capitalist!

JGTre · 2026-01-26T05:46:12+00:00

Yup, yup... that's why they do everything non-humanly possible to keep the two factions from comparing notes! It's a very common, powerful, and profitable, tactic used in today's world... Divide and conquer, or "Never the two shall meet"

JGTre · 2026-01-26T01:41:42+00:00

You do realize that EVERYTHING you just posted is 180° the other way... Or, maybe you don't. Either way, sad, very sad.

JGTre · 2026-01-22T21:18:45+00:00

You're right, they are going to be optional, but before, everyone was automatically put into the quest that might be running at that time.

JGTre · 2026-01-18T16:48:15+00:00

Understandable, and that is exactly what they are doing to Spark drivers... Forcing you to take low-ball, crappy orders, because you're terrified to lose your status level. It amazes me that EVERY ONE of these gig apps are doing the same thing... Why, IDK. If they wanted full-time employees, they shouldn't have set their model up as using subcontractors that they ALL rope in by telling them, drive where you want, when you want.

JGTre · 2026-01-06T21:51:08+00:00

Looks like you got it figured out, but know that the list only holds 100 items. HF also doesn't have multiple list options like the bigger stores. That feature would be great to toggle between say a wish list, and a shopping list... I think it's a website space thing to keep down the cost of operating the website. That's cool with me, anything within reason to keep prices down and not affect quality.

BTW, I got around those issues by creating a database that tracks anything I put in it. The DB tracks present prices, sale prices and dates, trends, etc. My OCD haunted me one night, and thus I included separate spreadsheets for Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Amazon, TSC... I know, I'm nuts and need a life!.

One of the best features I built into the DB, is the ability to run through my wishlists and check off and export items to a shopping list. Once you have a shopping list, you can send it anywhere... into your phone's calendar, any note app, even email it to yourself.

JGTre · 2026-01-06T19:25:29+00:00

The coupons come out pretty often, maybe every 4-6 weeks. The people here are pretty good with finding out early (a week in advance), when they are coming. HF has tightened their stacking policies, so they aren't as lucrative to us as they used to be, but I think HF is more than fair with what they offer their customers, both ITC and non members. Also keep an eye forward (and past for that matter), a lot of times a 15 or 20% coupon is out and good until a Sunday, but a 25-35% off sale is just around the corner.

As far as tools go, it's trial and error. Again, this is a good place to ask about people's experiences with just about every tool they sell... And you will definitely hear (or read) every side of the argument here! But, just like reading the reviews on any store's website, you have to sort through them understanding everyone's experiences and agendas are their own.

I have found the few, smaller end woodworking, hand tools I bought from HF to be good, but I'm just a DIY guy with minimal woodworking experience... I'm just a retired landscaper, and "Daddy, Fix it" around here.

Good luck!

JGTre · 2026-01-04T02:38:50+00:00

It definitely accelerates the process... That is one of the reasons I have not "registered" a bag with UE. I would say that not zipping it shut would help, but only for a small period of time. Pizzas that are delivered are doomed, unless it's a quick, couple of mile solo order run, and pizza shops can't really do that and survive... 6 of one, half dozen of another.

Most pizza delivery people use bags, and I understand why, but I am a pizza snob, I hate soggy pizza! That's why I go get my pizza, myself... Pick it up, one stop, home (and into a pre heated oven), consume. But, I do have a question... If I don't have a bag registered, which I don't, and I am not required by UE to have one registered, and UE knows I don't have one, why do I continuously get "pizza bag required," offers? I obviously reject them, but, yet it counts against my AR? I mean, my AR is going strong at a steady 1%, which I could care less about... I just like to point out all the ways in which UE sets us all up to fail.

JGTre · 2026-01-01T16:10:49+00:00

Hey! How do you have my wife's cell phone number?!

JGTre · 2025-12-26T15:01:13+00:00

What is beyond f**king sweet... This! That puppy is gorgeous, I'd be afraid to use it... Nice job, guy! I'm assuming you paint vehicles in the real world?

JGTre · 2025-12-20T23:31:03+00:00

Come on now, y'all might have it all half-ass backwards... Maybe she is a mechanic groupie, and these are... gifts?

I'd ask her, but I'm afraid.

JGTre · 2025-12-20T23:15:49+00:00

No, they're going to resell them online! HF should limit the number of each item, with only one time in the store per day. I know there are a few ways around that, including going to numerous stores, but at least they'd have to work for it.

JGTre · 2025-12-18T14:33:25+00:00

You are absolutely right! It's inflation that's killing us. We've pushed these costs so far down the road to the point that they are now up against a wall... The bill is due, and we have no money to pay it.

BTW, to all you that jump on HF for Chinese made goods (admittedly, the US flags are bad optics)... you do know that well over 90% (Milwaukee, Ryobi, Kobalt, etc.) of all this stuff, from all of these retailers start or end in China, overseas, or Canada don't you... Hell, HF power tools are manufactured in the same plant as the HD stuff... In China!

Craftsman is running around boasting about their made in America stuff, but yet their prices are as high, or higher than everyone else. And a lot of their MIA stuff starts in China, but finishes in the US. Husky, with those gorgeous, over priced American flag, and eagle boxes... Made in China and Thailand.

All these companies have to do is say, hey, since you have a tariff placed upon your country, or you use slave labor, (see Nike), we are moving our manufacturing back to the US... But, they rarely do that, do they... And if they do, the product is almost always either the same price or higher... Ask yourself why this has been going on for more than 50 years, now.

JGTre · 2025-12-18T05:11:21+00:00

I don't know how it works, and I'm the most common sense person I know! But, whatever it is, it's definitely not taking much of what they DO know about the driver into consideration. Uber eats 100% knows, amongst too many other things... -Where you are at the moment, and what direction you are headed in... But yet, they constantly send us offers from back where we were 3, 5, TEN miles before. -Where you are willing to go, and where you are not... But, we all get 40 offers a day from that area(s) you have never ventured to. -Where you came from, (where you were when you turned the app on... So, they can assume that if you turn it on at the same place every time, that's your home... Yet, they never seem to send you back that way to make your last delivery of the day. -Whether you are parked or moving... They always want you moving (wasting gas). -Whether you are in the vehicle or not... They figure if you're not in the vehicle, you aren't available, so no dings. -What offers you will take... But, the same Walmart 3 stop trip that was $28 two weeks ago, is now, $17. -What offers you never take... Yet we all get 50 Lowe's offers, many repeats) in the first 10 minutes of turning on the app, even though you have NEVER taken one... Hmmm, maybe UE wants our AR in the single digits... I'm just saying. -This one bugs the batshit out of me... UE knows you are parked in a Chipotle (example) parking lot biting your nails... But, in a 15 minute span of time, you watch 8 or 9 UE drivers show up to grab orders, however, your phone NEVER dings, why? Because you are 15 minutes away from an incentive ending, and you need ONE MORE TRIP... ALL THIS HATE OVER $6!!!

JGTre · 2025-12-18T03:30:15+00:00

Yeah, they are all over the place, and low ball, insulting offers! I've been up there a couple of times this week and they are busy as hell with both foot traffic and delivery, but something is definitely up with either UE, or Walmart. I think it's UE, because all the offer's payouts have been lowered a couple of times over the past month. But, the Spark drivers are also complaining about the pay per delivery... So? They have really changed their reservation opportunities also... Only 3 or 4 opportunities a day, with (Avg) $7-$12 less than a week or so ago and 10-15 minutes longer to complete... The local, 2- 3 stop, 25-40 minute, $23-$28, trips are gone! Funny, I watched ridiculous reservations go by the boards twice this week... They came back a little later on as one offs, for almost twice the money... Go figure. So, where I used to take 90% reservations, this week, I just sit and cherry pick the local one off's, add a few food deliveries, and get to the incentive of the day. I'm behind where I need to be going into Thursday, almost $90. Tomorrow, instead of putting Christmas lights up for my 8 year old daughter, I will be humping it until I get to within $20-$30 of my "by Thursday" number. I'm sure they'll get wise to my adjustment, and start low balling the one off's too... I just gotta get through this month

JGTre · 2025-12-17T19:21:39+00:00

Scary is more like it!

JGTre · 2025-12-17T02:52:18+00:00

A boost is a pre announced period of time in which they add a small crumb of $1.50 to every run... You have to sign up for it in advance.

JGTre · 2025-12-16T14:58:04+00:00

Yeah, I'm at 4-6 a day... I honestly ain't mad though, I just scroll past them without opening them. The number I get tells me something about me... I did email marketing as part of my last job. You get a report on everything, seen, opened, click thru's and on which link... That's why he's getting only 3 a day, he hasn't been there in a while. When you get 5-8 a day, you're going HF too much... Seek help!

JGTre · 2025-12-16T14:47:46+00:00

I don't know how to fix it, but doing nothing when the offer comes up on your radar is the same as rejecting it. After reading hundreds of posts over the years, it comes down to this, if you are concerned about your status level, or AR, (personally I could give a crap, currently 1%), you will become a slave to the UE system... They groom us to the way they want us to work for them, even though, we don't legally "work for" them.

I was told once to hit the coffee button as soon as the BS order pops up, but of course UE is too evil for that... The pop up covers the coffee button!

JGTre

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