Renting a car? Oh… You mean like, subscribing? The type of payment model where the consumer always ends up overpaying when needing to use the service for extended periods of time?
Where I live, the concept is called “car sharing”. There are two small cars just across the street and if I need one, it costs 2,50 € per hour plus maybe 0,30 € per kilometer, fuel included. So if I need to make a weekly grocery run to one of the large stores, it’s probably just a little over 10-12 Euros for three hours all told.
Now, I own a car that’s older and too cheap to not keep it for longer drives when I am seeing my family (roughly an hour each way) at the weekends, but for my day-to-day needs, I probably shouldn’t own one.
That’s only a subscription if you keep the car 24/7, it’s a completely different thing if you only rent for a couple of hours per week. Even renting a car for a day (which might be the shortest amount of time you can rent a car in many places) wouldn’t be a subscription, though at that point it might not be cheaper than owning anymore.
I never thought about it like that! I did in fact buy the car specifically to go to the grocery store and don’t use it for anything else
Can’t you just order groceries? Isn’t that a thing in the US?
Have you considered renting? Depending on the business model, that could be very cheap if it’s just a couple of hours per week.
Renting a car? Oh… You mean like, subscribing? The type of payment model where the consumer always ends up overpaying when needing to use the service for extended periods of time?
Car2go was such an awesome service. I missed it very much when it went…I don’t know, where did it go?
Where I live, the concept is called “car sharing”. There are two small cars just across the street and if I need one, it costs 2,50 € per hour plus maybe 0,30 € per kilometer, fuel included. So if I need to make a weekly grocery run to one of the large stores, it’s probably just a little over 10-12 Euros for three hours all told.
Now, I own a car that’s older and too cheap to not keep it for longer drives when I am seeing my family (roughly an hour each way) at the weekends, but for my day-to-day needs, I probably shouldn’t own one.
That’s only a subscription if you keep the car 24/7, it’s a completely different thing if you only rent for a couple of hours per week. Even renting a car for a day (which might be the shortest amount of time you can rent a car in many places) wouldn’t be a subscription, though at that point it might not be cheaper than owning anymore.
The car rental place is further away from me than the grocery store.
Or instacart.