Hah. I wish I were getting paid to do this. Maybe I do particularly dislike grocery shopping. Everywhere I've lived it's been a real drag: Midwest: In the sto

Hah. I wish I were getting paid to do this. Maybe I do particularly dislike grocery shopping. Everywhere I've lived it's been a real drag: Midwest: In the store with lowest prices you spend half your time shopping and half waiting to get through checkout. Whole Foods is pleasant but overpriced. Mariano's is somewhere in the middle. NYC: Great small boutique grocery stores, much more expensive than Whole Foods, unbearably crowded at peak times, packed full of customers who are tripping over each other. Employees look ready to burst from the stress at any moment. Lower-end stores stock a very small number of items and are also overpriced. Not all neighborhoods have walking access to a larger, higher quality store like Whole Foods. SF: Whole Foods is a zoo and is undersized and frequently sold out. Safeway lacks many of the higher quality items but only offers paper bags which are a nightmare to carry if you walked. Safeway delivers but the quality of service is poor, and you are guaranteed to get the produce they had to get rid of that day. Parking to shop at any of these is a unique nightmare. I don't think I'm alone in not enjoying most of these experiences, or at least preferring to avoid them most of the time. Instacart may be losing money (who knows) but likely has ample room to increase prices. Uber and Lyft are both burning money and nobody cares.