Cullen and Katie: Blame the Mailman Part 7

[Ducklings4]

I understand why they used it when Gaines was sick. I doubt they use it all the time. I would use the service if it were offered here and I was sick. We can preorder our groceries and pick them up curb side, but I have not used that service...yet.


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[tratra58]

I do think it's a stretch to have two stay-at-home parents telling their audience about what a life saver it is to have a grocery delivery service. I think it's a good concept and will appeal to their adult viewers who work. I do think it's hard for them to continue to be relatable to adult viewers when their job is to talk into a camera for a few minutes every day and edit it into a 10 minute clip.

I agree. It would seem they have more than enough time to grocery shop and especially there is only so much they can vlog at home and you see them film on their errands. That being said, as someone who works more than filming/editing a ten minute vlog a day, I would love this service. Is this an issue being relatable with both parents home...it has to me at times especially when the one spouse goes on to quit their job which you then see a lot of sitting and even napping.

[lmmomSD]

These folks seem to manage to either stay awake during the day, or not vlog naps as much, except when Brooks was newborn (which is to be expected). The Lumps and Jared can't seem to get through a day without a nap. Probably boredom.

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[Scar2016]

To be honest, I highly doubt they were giving the company all that attention without sponsorship dollars attached. They want to be able to say that it was a service they genuinely used and now suddenly they've partnered with them. Maybe their network told them to do all of that to get the company's attention in order to secure a sponsorship. But it was so staged and so repetitive that I feel like the sponsorship was established from day one and it was just clever marketing. They've been disingenuous in the past about their financial relationship with the diet cleanse.

You raise a relevant point, imo. I found it a bit strange when the whole family was ill and Katie wrote a note and put it on the front porch for the grocery delivery person, telling them to leave the food there so they didn't get exposed to the illness bug inside the house. Then, when Katie opened the door to bring the bags in the delivery person (having read the note) had left a gift. Wasn't it a box of chocolates or something and/or flowers? And a card or hand written note saying they hoped the family felt better soon.

Sorry, but that didn't ring true at all. Like, why would a grocery deliverer have random gifts lying about in their truck on the off chance that one of their customers would be ill? I get Shipt/Katie were trying to make Shipt seem like a personal service/personable company but that 'gifting' just seemed staged to me.

[hey girl hey007]

To be honest, I highly doubt they were giving the company all that attention without sponsorship dollars attached. They want to be able to say that it was a service they genuinely used and now suddenly they've partnered with them. Maybe their network told them to do all of that to get the company's attention in order to secure a sponsorship. But it was so staged and so repetitive that I feel like the sponsorship was established from day one and it was just clever marketing. They've been disingenuous in the past about their financial relationship with the diet cleanse.

You raise a relevant point, imo. I found it a bit strange when the whole family was ill and Katie wrote a note and put it on the front porch for the grocery delivery person, telling them to leave the food there so they didn't get exposed to the illness bug inside the house. Then, when Katie opened the door to bring the bags in the delivery person (having read the note) had left a gift. Wasn't it a box of chocolates or something and/or flowers? And a card or hand written note saying they hoped the family felt better soon.

Sorry, but that didn't ring true at all. Like, why would a grocery deliverer have random gifts lying about in their truck on the off chance that one of their customers would be ill? I get Shipt/Katie were trying to make Shipt seem like a personal service/personable company but that 'gifting' just seemed staged to me.

I think you have it wrong. From what I understood you can leave notes/request through the app. That's where Katie left said note, and the woman took it upon herself to get flowers and tea for MG assuming it was Katie who was sick. I thought it was sweet that the person went out of their way to do that for them. Just me though,

[hey girl hey007]

If anyone wants to debate the whole drug use/drunk thing go watch any of Bryan's insta story. He's proud of himself for not brushing his hair, or changing his clothes. Then he films himself eating pie, and talking to a Santa cookie jar. Not saying he's on drugs or he's drunk he always acts so weird on snapchat and insta story.

[Elizabetlj]

I find really odd that we are having a debate about how people shop for groceries. In the UK I would say hald of the population online shops for there groceries and gets them delivered, it's not lazy just convenient.

[iheartyt]

I don't think they are lazy for using a grocery service. I just don't want to hear about it quite so often. They are in Target an awful lot though. Aside from when Gaines was sick, it doesn't seem like something they need to use.

[HashtagBlessed]

To be honest, I highly doubt they were giving the company all that attention without sponsorship dollars attached. They want to be able to say that it was a service they genuinely used and now suddenly they've partnered with them. Maybe their network told them to do all of that to get the company's attention in order to secure a sponsorship. But it was so staged and so repetitive that I feel like the sponsorship was established from day one and it was just clever marketing. They've been disingenuous in the past about their financial relationship with the diet cleanse.

You raise a relevant point, imo. I found it a bit strange when the whole family was ill and Katie wrote a note and put it on the front porch for the grocery delivery person, telling them to leave the food there so they didn't get exposed to the illness bug inside the house. Then, when Katie opened the door to bring the bags in the delivery person (having read the note) had left a gift. Wasn't it a box of chocolates or something and/or flowers? And a card or hand written note saying they hoped the family felt better soon.

Sorry, but that didn't ring true at all. Like, why would a grocery deliverer have random gifts lying about in their truck on the off chance that one of their customers would be ill? I get Shipt/Katie were trying to make Shipt seem like a personal service/personable company but that 'gifting' just seemed staged to me.

I think you have it wrong. From what I understood you can leave notes/request through the app. That's where Katie left said note, and the woman took it upon herself to get flowers and tea for MG assuming it was Katie who was sick. I thought it was sweet that the person went out of their way to do that for them. Just me though,

I think it's very likely that Shipt was courting them for an endorsement and offered them the option of using the service for free beforehand to see if they wanted to partner based on their experience. I think the "get well" gift was the company going the extra mile to get a good review from someone who would be featuring the service in the vlog and had the potential to market it to their viewers. I think if that's the case, they should have disclosed that. I highly doubt it was a case of Katie and Cullen finding this service on their own, paying for it, and then three weeks later this company is sponsoring a video. Like I said before, it's possible that they gave Shipt all this this attention on their channel and in their social media with the hopes of attracting their attention and getting a sponsorship out of it, but I doubt it. That would be a strange way to go about marketing yourself to companies. It's also possible they like the service and Shipt just randomly reached out to broker a financial deal with their channel, but again, I doubt it.

[Playsinrain]

What's weird to me is that no one had an issue with them using the service (which they have been using for quite some time) until they got sponsored. Now suddenly they are lazy as hell bc they have a few things delivered every once in a while.. Sure it has been more used and talked about the past few weeks but they have talked about using shipt in the past as well. they got grandberry a subscription for her birthday! Like someone else said, at least they use this service they are promoting. (and for the record i gave Bryan hell for having meals delivered bc he thought it was healthier that way. He can cook at home, which Cullen and Katie do more often than not. I couldn't care less if they have groceries delivered) The service seems like a great idea and i would use it in a heart beat if i had the option. It seems like to me they just use it for small orders when no one feels like leaving the house, I have yet to see them have a full weeks groceries delivered. Katie wanted to bake cookies and drink cider while they decorated the tree and didn't want to leave the house bc MG was so excited about it, I really can't see fault in that.. But i guess i'm clearly the minority here. Noted.

[Playsinrain]

You raise a relevant point, imo. I found it a bit strange when the whole family was ill and Katie wrote a note and put it on the front porch for the grocery delivery person, telling them to leave the food there so they didn't get exposed to the illness bug inside the house. Then, when Katie opened the door to bring the bags in the delivery person (having read the note) had left a gift. Wasn't it a box of chocolates or something and/or flowers? And a card or hand written note saying they hoped the family felt better soon.

Sorry, but that didn't ring true at all. Like, why would a grocery deliverer have random gifts lying about in their truck on the off chance that one of their customers would be ill? I get Shipt/Katie were trying to make Shipt seem like a personal service/personable company but that 'gifting' just seemed staged to me.

I think you have it wrong. From what I understood you can leave notes/request through the app. That's where Katie left said note, and the woman took it upon herself to get flowers and tea for MG assuming it was Katie who was sick. I thought it was sweet that the person went out of their way to do that for them. Just me though,

I think it's very likely that Shipt was courting them for an endorsement and offered them the option of using the service for free beforehand to see if they wanted to partner based on their experience. I think the "get well" gift was the company going the extra mile to get a good review from someone who would be featuring the service in the vlog and had the potential to market it to their viewers. I think if that's the case, they should have disclosed that. I highly doubt it was a case of Katie and Cullen finding this service on their own, paying for it, and then three weeks later this company is sponsoring a video. Like I said before, it's possible that they gave Shipt all this this attention on their channel and in their social media with the hopes of attracting their attention and getting a sponsorship out of it, but I doubt it. That would be a strange way to go about marketing yourself to companies. It's also possible they like the service and Shipt just randomly reached out to broker a financial deal with their channel, but again, I doubt it.

They have been using Shipt for way longer than 3 weeks..

[HashtagBlessed]

Ah, I didn't realize they had been members of Shipt for a long time. I saw that they started tagging them in a photos on Instagram 3 weeks ago when they recieved the "get well" flowers. I guess I just find it hard to believe that a partnership wasn't already in the works, but not disclosed yet, when that happened.

[Lovethesnark]

What's weird to me is that no one had an issue with them using the service (which they have been using for quite some time) until they got sponsored. Now suddenly they are lazy as hell bc they have a few things delivered every once in a while.. Sure it has been more used and talked about the past few weeks but they have talked about using shipt in the past as well. they got grandberry a subscription for her birthday! Like someone else said, at least they use this service they are promoting. (and for the record i gave Bryan hell for having meals delivered bc he thought it was healthier that way. He can cook at home, which Cullen and Katie do more often than not. I couldn't care less if they have groceries delivered) The service seems like a great idea and i would use it in a heart beat if i had the option. It seems like to me they just use it for small orders when no one feels like leaving the house, I have yet to see them have a full weeks groceries delivered. Katie wanted to bake cookies and drink cider while they decorated the tree and didn't want to leave the house bc MG was so excited about it, I really can't see fault in that.. But i guess i'm clearly the minority here. Noted.

What's the difference between Bryan having meals delivered and C&K having their groceries delivered?? With all of the criticism of the Lump's diets, I would assume that having healthy meals delivered would be a positive thing.

[HashtagBlessed]

And I certainly hope they use it more than every once in a while, it's a $99 annual membership in order to waive the delivery fee. But it seems you're still paying a mark up per item for the service.

[Playsinrain]

Ah, I didn't realize they had been members of Shipt for a long time. I saw that they started tagging them in a photos on Instagram 3 weeks ago when they recieved the "get well" flowers. I guess I just find it hard to believe that a partnership wasn't already in the works, but not disclosed yet, when that happened.

Idk how long they have been using them, but they got the subscription for GB for her bday, which was 2-3 months ago. I can't see them buying that for her without using the service themselves first. I almost want to say i can remember them talking about having groceries delivered when Katie was pregnant...

[Playsinrain]

What's weird to me is that no one had an issue with them using the service (which they have been using for quite some time) until they got sponsored. Now suddenly they are lazy as hell bc they have a few things delivered every once in a while.. Sure it has been more used and talked about the past few weeks but they have talked about using shipt in the past as well. they got grandberry a subscription for her birthday! Like someone else said, at least they use this service they are promoting. (and for the record i gave Bryan hell for having meals delivered bc he thought it was healthier that way. He can cook at home, which Cullen and Katie do more often than not. I couldn't care less if they have groceries delivered) The service seems like a great idea and i would use it in a heart beat if i had the option. It seems like to me they just use it for small orders when no one feels like leaving the house, I have yet to see them have a full weeks groceries delivered. Katie wanted to bake cookies and drink cider while they decorated the tree and didn't want to leave the house bc MG was so excited about it, I really can't see fault in that.. But i guess i'm clearly the minority here. Noted.

What's the difference between Bryan having meals delivered and C&K having their groceries delivered?? With all of the criticism of the Lump's diets, I would assume that having healthy meals delivered would be a positive thing.

The difference too me is that he was only getting meals for himself delivered, meals that could easily be made at home with food he either went and bought or had delivered too him. He used the service for like maybe a week before he gave up on that. I gave him shit bc he couldn't even stick with eating healthy when someone else cooked and delivered it, not bc it was delivered.

[lilwhiteindian]

I don't quite understand. In the US can you not get groceries delivered from every store then? In the UK all of the major supermarkets offer a delivery service (they don't use an outside company) so if people get food delivered here no one bats an eyelid because it's completely normal, whether you have the time to go to the supermarket or not.
With regards to them being sponsored by shipt, I don't think there was anything dodgy about it.... I remember them mentioning using the service around the time Brooks was born & it's been coming up in vlogs from time to time since then, quite often just mentioned in passing.


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[Playsinrain]

I don't quite understand. In the US can you not get groceries delivered from every store then? In the UK all of the major supermarkets offer a delivery service (they don't use an outside company) so if people get food delivered here no one bats an eyelid because it's completely normal, whether you have the time to go to the supermarket or not.
With regards to them being sponsored by shipt, I don't think there was anything dodgy about it.... I remember them mentioning using the service around the time Brooks was born & it's been coming up in vlogs from time to time since then, quite often just mentioned in passing.


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It's not the norm here where i am from and from the looks of the comments its not the norm anywhere in the US. I know some local non chain grocers here will deliver goods to some elderly and homebound people (drug stores too) but its not a service they provide for just anyone.

[Ducklings4]

You raise a relevant point, imo. I found it a bit strange when the whole family was ill and Katie wrote a note and put it on the front porch for the grocery delivery person, telling them to leave the food there so they didn't get exposed to the illness bug inside the house. Then, when Katie opened the door to bring the bags in the delivery person (having read the note) had left a gift. Wasn't it a box of chocolates or something and/or flowers? And a card or hand written note saying they hoped the family felt better soon.

Sorry, but that didn't ring true at all. Like, why would a grocery deliverer have random gifts lying about in their truck on the off chance that one of their customers would be ill? I get Shipt/Katie were trying to make Shipt seem like a personal service/personable company but that 'gifting' just seemed staged to me.

I think you have it wrong. From what I understood you can leave notes/request through the app. That's where Katie left said note, and the woman took it upon herself to get flowers and tea for MG assuming it was Katie who was sick. I thought it was sweet that the person went out of their way to do that for them. Just me though,

I think it's very likely that Shipt was courting them for an endorsement and offered them the option of using the service for free beforehand to see if they wanted to partner based on their experience. I think the "get well" gift was the company going the extra mile to get a good review from someone who would be featuring the service in the vlog and had the potential to market it to their viewers. I think if that's the case, they should have disclosed that. I highly doubt it was a case of Katie and Cullen finding this service on their own, paying for it, and then three weeks later this company is sponsoring a video. Like I said before, it's possible that they gave Shipt all this this attention on their channel and in their social media with the hopes of attracting their attention and getting a sponsorship out of it, but I doubt it. That would be a strange way to go about marketing yourself to companies. It's also possible they like the service and Shipt just randomly reached out to broker a financial deal with their channel, but again, I doubt it.

They gave a subscription to it to Cullen's mom last year for Christmas. I don't think this Fall was the first time they used it. I do think they use it under certain circumstances, like Gaines being sick.
It is perfect for his mom because as they said she works late.


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[Lovethesnark]

What's the difference between Bryan having meals delivered and C&K having their groceries delivered?? With all of the criticism of the Lump's diets, I would assume that having healthy meals delivered would be a positive thing.

The difference too me is that he was only getting meals for himself delivered, meals that could easily be made at home with food he either went and bought or had delivered too him. He used the service for like maybe a week before he gave up on that. I gave him shit bc he couldn't even stick with eating healthy when someone else cooked and delivered it, not bc it was delivered.

We all know Missy and Ollie don't eat anything that isn't a shade of brown, yellow, or white. It makes sense he would only order meals for himself. Either way it's done for convenience. I really don't understand what's different.