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If you're in the Bay Area and have a car, I'd recommend checking out Cheetah [1]. It's a startup that pivoted [2] from doing restaurant wholesale deliveries (fr
by compumike 6y ago
If you're in the Bay Area and have a car, I'd recommend checking out Cheetah [1]. It's a startup that pivoted [2] from doing restaurant wholesale deliveries (from Restaurant Depot, which only sells to restaurants!) to doing drive-through pickup for consumers. You place an order by app, drive up to one of their parked refrigerated trucks at the scheduled time, and say your name. They load your trunk, and you're done. It's taken the majority of my grocery spend in the past few months and I hope the concept remains post-pandemic.
By doing pickup, you get pretty good convenience (almost as good as delivery), great pricing, and somewhat limited selection (but always reflected in-app at order time, rather than surprising you at pickup time). That's a tradeoff that works for me.
A few months ago you could only order restaurant-sized quantities of things (like minimum 25 lbs of bananas), but they've since started making more items available in "family friendly" sizes (3 lbs bananas, $1.80).
(They do have a $20-off your first order referral promotion I'll mention [3] in case you want to try it, but I'm just a happy customer who wants to see the concept take off.)
[1] https://www.gocheetah.com/ https://www.gocheetah.com/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/cheetah-a-restaurant-wholesale-app-that-pivoted-to-consumers-for-covid-19-nabs-36m/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/cheetah-a-restaurant-whole...
[3] Enter referral code "2EA2666F" at sign-up or https://cheetah.onelink.me/j187/7b49398d https://cheetah.onelink.me/j187/7b49398d
- scarface74 6y agoAren’t many local grocery stores doing curbside pickup? Locally Walmart and Kroger is.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThey are, but they're just not very good at it in my experience. I tried my local store's curbside pickup and I got no butter plus salsa instead of pasta sauce.
- throwaway43234 6y agoProtip: store bought salsa makes a better pasta sauce than store bought pasta sauce. (Controversial) protip: home made salsa makes a better pasta sauce than home made pasta sauce
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt makes an acceptable pasta sauce with the right additions, but I have too much Mexican pride to disrespect salsa that way.
- ISL 6y agoQFC in Seattle's U-District is doing a great job.
- skybrian 6y agoI tried Safeway and it would have been faster to do the shopping myself rather than wait in the car, so it's not something you do just for convenience.
- coronadisaster 6y ago> I hope the concept remains post-pandemic. not sure if post-pandemic will be a thing
- harpratap 6y agoNot sure why so many think this way. In worst case scenario- we are never able to create a vaccine. So you expect the world to stay in lockdown mode for eternity?
- baddox 6y agoIt's easy to be post-lockdown but not post-pandemic. Many places in the United States have been doing this for weeks now, and we're seeing how that's going.
- harpratap 6y ago> It's easy to be post-lockdown but not post-pandemic What's the difference?
- nthj 6y agoA lockdown is a a government-issued stay-at-home order. The presence of such an order should be, but isn't necessarily, aligned with the presence of a prevalent disease.
- harpratap 6y agoNot asking for a literal definition of those words. I'm asking what's the difference in living in "post-lockdown" world vs "post-pandemic" world. Personally I think masks will become more prevalent in the west, like it is already in the east. And more remote jobs. In the grand scheme of things, these two changes seem minor to me. So what is it that I'm missing here? What grand changes in the way we live are we expecting in "post-pandemic" world?
- OJFord 6y agoThat sounds worse than delivery? I don't know what it's like in North America, but in the UK grocery delivery is pretty ubiquitous, not all companies everywhere, but someone everywhere, before this year & the coronavirus. The people that didn't use it didn't by preference, and the surge in demand is the (maybe partially but not entirely, or perhaps entirely, open for debate) change in preference in the current climate, not that there's suddenly an availability of this concept that didn't exist before. Nobody's worried that Ocado, or the online divisions of the major supermarkets, might disappear when we're all innoculated.
- petra 6y agoIf you have a pickup point on your way from work(or other places you go to) and the wait time is short , it's not much worse than delivery. And you get lower prices.