There's a fairly new app called Path Talk that lets you text any business a question and get a response back within 5 minutes. Basically there is an army of people being paid to receive these texts from you, call the business you're addressing, ask them the question, and then text that information back to you. So through a surrogate human you can order pizzas, check if something is in stock somewhere, find out when a place opens or closes etc, in case for some reason you don't like talking to people on the phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...paperboy&hl=en