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Paying a contractor to have an employee drive to a grocery store, pickup $435 worth of groceries, drive them to you, unload them, then drive home would reasonably run $100. Many professional companies will charge that or more for 1-2 hours of employee time.
But it's not an employee, and they're not getting the $100. It's an independent contractor gig worker getting a fraction of that and the rest is going to a vampire.
"General Contractor" doesn't mean someone that does random tasks on their own, that's a "handyman".
General contractors usually just hire people to do the work and then pocket most of the money...
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment