You are confusing direct payment and general revenue/fees from which the store pays employees. You are correct Handling fee is not directly transferred to the employee. Handling fee is revenue collected by the store. Now that they have a big pool of revenue, they pay their employees from it (the minimum wage you referred to). Read that in context of the next two paragraphs.

WRT cashiers and stockers that was part of the existing business model. The general profit from groceries covered those expenses.

The general profit from groceries does not cover the expense of a different business model of hiring additional employees whose sole job would be to walk around filling orders. Those additional jobs require additional revenue, which the store gets from handling fee.

The next question may be "why a Handling fee" instead of paying those employees from general profit from groceries. The answer is because online orders have a new direct cost, which the store wants to put on those customers that are creating that cost. That's the short of it.

Tipping is an entirely different part of this.

Other chains might be trying it without charging yet. Or the orders aren't so high yet. Who knows.

And their pay should come from their employer.

...It is. Via the handling fee. Let's put it this way: If the store hires people whose sole job is to walk up and down the aisles filling orders, the store has to get money to pay those people. The store gets that money by charging people the handling fee.

I expect the subtotal is the actual price of groceries, handling fee is the cost of the employee collecting them, mailing is mailing.

Honestly it's not a small job to go up and down the aisles and collect everything.

Though tipping groceries seems odd.

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Reddit green is made of bots?

Hmm that makes sense.

Do you have a forced air furnace? Some of them have a switch to turn the fan on, which would pull in air and push it out the vents (just without the heating).

You only need IT support, which you would be paying for one way or another with MS.

the government has given the go-ahead for the first step towards complete digital sovereignty in the state, with further steps to follow.

The term digital sovereignty is very important here. If a public administration uses proprietary, closed software that can’t be studied or modified, it is very difficult to know what happens to users’ data:

We have no influence on the operating processes of such [proprietary] solutions and the handling of data, including a possible outflow of data to third countries. As a state, we have a great responsibility towards our citizens and companies to ensure that their data is kept safe with us and we must ensure that we are always in control of the IT solutions we use and that we can act independently as a state.

Digital sovereignty seems to be the primary impetus, so this might go far. Saving money is secondary.

So your neighbour's houses are sticking out further? Well you're probably going to have to rely on fans then. And the rolling screen door. Place one fan outside the door pointed into the house. On the other side place it inside the house and pointed out.

There is literally zero space between the front and the street?

Do you own the house? Is so you can look changing out windows with this vertical swing style to catch the wind. https://homeimprovementsupply.com/images/product/medium/2815.jpg Orientate to catch the wind (but remember you need the air in the house to have a way to flow out too).