Commentary: We have become a 'dabao nation' – why does it feel like a bad thing?

With COVID-19, our eating habits have changed – where we used to converge for meals, we now order in. This new world betrays a generational ...

SINGAPORE: Pre-COVID-19, I was what a young person would call a “noob” when it came to ordering things online. I did not have a single Lazada, Shopee or Redmart account and I didn’t order a meal on an app either.

It just didn’t seem worth the trouble to get a bunch of grapes and a loaf of bread online when it was just easier to hop on the bus, get into a mall, and pick up what I wanted. “In my corporate office, I have a hawker centre right downstairs and I will see some of my younger staff ordering food delivery for lunch and I am like, 'but the hawker centre is just downstairs and the food is probably at half the price!'” he says, adding that this is the new reality and a sign of things to come.

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