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Why People Still Don't Buy Groceries Online
- tracker1 8y agoIt's much more expensive, and you can't pick your own produce. Given the pickers' incentives for fast over quality/accuracy, it's often a bad experience. I've tried a couple times and every single time, part of the order is wrong, often something like "bread" or "milk" is tagged "out of stock" and beyond that, correcting anything is painful and time consuming. Some bulk things, I might order on Amazon, but not much.
- Something1234 8y agoIt's expensive, and more difficult for me to browse than going to the store. I much prefer to meander my way through a store than track down the listing on the store site.
- DeonPenny 8y agoI do now, I tried to do it in store, but I forget things, I don't have time to think, and the store next to me sucks. Delivery is like $5 so I go for it.
- microtherion 8y agoOnline groceries are a key ingredient to our family being able to live without a car. We tend to order not-so-perishable items (Soda, Potatoes, Milk, Toilet paper) online from https://www.leshop.ch/en/supermarket/home https://www.leshop.ch/en/supermarket/home which makes shopping for perishables on foot/public transit much more manageable.
- hbcondo714 8y agoI tried buying groceries online with Ralph's (who uses Instacart) but items were almost always reported as out of stock during the shopping process and the alternatives weren't desirable in that I requested organic or non-gmo products but the alternatives provided were not organic or contained GMOs.
- heyjudy 8y agoWebvan and Peapod tried and died. Supermarkets themselves have tried. Maybe Instacart, Google Express, Amazon Local can survive.
- xfitm3 8y agoI used Instacart and as everyone else has pointed out: it's just too expensive. The grocer in my area accepts orders online and they fill it for free. When it's ready I pull up and they bring out a full cart. It's fantastic. The produce they pick is OK but you won't ever be happy unless you do it yourself.
- justtopost 8y agoOnline order, pay and instore pickup are a thing, and superior for dry, canned and frozen goods. Just buy your produce seperate, or join a co-op. I order all my meat from one of 3 local farms, all of whom deliver either by hand or fedex. Easy peasy. Nobody can compete in price or quality.
- youngtaff 8y agoUnsurprisingly that's a very US perspective from The Atlantic - in the UK online grocery shopping is well embedded and expanding (although only relatively small % rate) We're shopped online for over a year and generally avoid going to the supermarket if we can