What is the meaning of "Can orders be delivered contactless from here?"

Today I saw a couple of new questions in the Q&A section. Most strange to me was this one:


Translated literally it is “Can orders be delivered contactless from here?”.

Does anybody have examples for this? Or is this a bad translation for something else?

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it is asking weather the payments can be made contactless like for example with Google Pay or others…

No @Marcosgcr a different question asks for contact-less payment via NFC. This question asks for delivery, not payment.

Yes @WilfriedB I’ve been seeing the English equivalent of that queation “Does this place offer no-contact delivery”. I assumed it was a flashback to COVID times when there was an effort to avoid touching people and things when delivering goods to customers.

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Hi @WilfriedB Yes I see this option a lot of times while reviewing restaurants. It asks the question if the business offers No contact delivery.

So, what is “no contact delivery” of food in a restaurant?

Hi, @WilfriedB, I am sharing the ss

Thank @PrasadVR!

Can you think of any place, where you would respond with Yes? And if so, how the delivery work?

If our interpretation of this question is correct, my answer is usually No or Not Sure.

I have two memories from the COVID era:

  • A fast food restaurant delivering to our home - the driver presented the sanitized packages to us on a tray and we had to take them off without touching his hands or the tray.
  • A pharmacy where I wasn’t allowed to touch nor stand close to the counter. My prescription medication was placed on a small tray and I had to lift the package off from there.

None of this is common practice anymore, so I don’t understand why the question pops up so often. Maybe Maps is posing it with a completely different meaning that I’m missing.

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Neither do I! Since 2 or 3 days, it pops up for literally all kinds of places - seems like, they turned back in time for 3 or 4 years :laughing:

This was exactly my intension, to ask this question.

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@WilfriedB , Since the Covid era, I haven’t found any “no contact delivery” points, so my usual answer is "No’.

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No contact delivery was popular particularly during COVID times which basically referred to minimum personal contact during the delivery of food and other FMCG products. I remember a few instances where the delivery person used to drop the items on our door or other dedicated spots and once we sanitized them we used to bring the items inside our house.

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