Online 'pabili' answers lockdown needs, helps displaced drivers; PNP says violates guidelines LuzonLockdown
MANILA – While app-based motorcycle deliveries of food and other basic goods are allowed under the Luzon lockdown due to COVID-19, expectant mom Meg Liggayu opts to have her food cravings and vitamins delivered through a “pabili” service, where orders are made online and goods are delivered in exchange for a fee.
Only 100 out of 300 tricycle drivers in the area are members of the “pabili” service as some do not own motorcycles, are elderly, and do not know how to navigate social media, Dimaculangan added. Tins Sicangco, daughter of an official of the villages’ tricycle operators and drivers association or TODA, said she came up with the idea “out of frustration.”
“Ginawa ‘yung group kasi dito sa subdivision po namin malayo ang palengke, grocery at iba pa, para stay at home 'yung iba,” vendor Cris May Jaramillo added.Others in Metro Manila are also offering region-wide “pabili” services with a service fee of P300, such as “Sheryl,” who asked that her real name be withheld.
Pat Dermino, a 51-year-old government employee, said it was safer especially for people like him who are immunocompromised and are more vulnerable to the coronavirus disease.
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