Trying to avoid all those germs at the grocery store, so I ordered from Safeway, which is owned by some big chain, Harrelsons? I've done that before. at least twice and here in Baltimore they're very reliable in their delivery. Iiuc once the rules said someone had to be home, and I was home, but they just left it which was fine with me. I don't order ice cream.
But this time they sent me a text with a link to track my order. And it brings up an Olympse map with a pushpin for my house and a big red S for what's got to be the truck. It was southwest a little of Ellicott City, and then went north and a little west to ----chards.
It also says at the top, in red that it will be at my place in 1 hr 42 min, PLUS there's a clock and a numbers that says 1:14 PM, which is the time if you add 1:42 to the time when I brought up the page.
It give the drivers name, too, but that I wont' tell you.
This is fun. They ruined Amazon tracking, which was like watching a horse race, by having Amazon delivery where they give only start and end. This is, or I hope it is, like watching a cross-country race. I say hope because the truck hasn't moved for 5 minutes. Maybe he's unloading a really big order.
Ah, he's moving again. This map is strange. It has a button that shows two cars side by side. When the button is red, all the xways are red and most have green outlines on either side. When the button is tapped and it's white, the green goes away, and the red stays. I looked over the whole west side. I'm sure there is not heavy traffic or traffic jams at more than a couple places, but all the xways are red. In other maps the red is heavy traffic, but he seems to be zooming along an Xway now. (actually, it shows motion periodically, every minute or so.)
Now he's at the Beltway and he's heading away from me. No, no, turn around. But he still has an hour and 16 minutes. I'm sure he'll be close.
One "problem" is that the online store doesn't have everything the real store has, and even the real stores, despite how big they are, are missing a bunch of things. No nestles chocolate syrup even at the store. I'll have to check if other Nestle's stuff is there. I know no supermarket is big enough to sell everything that is for sale, but I wonder about th e syrup.
What about mini-bags of microwave popcorn. They dont' have that at the store, but I think I tried to find them online. Has everyone stopped selling those?
I look forward to when the solid-liquid modems are affordable, and we can dispense with using a truck for delivery.