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Meanwhile, grocery pick-up has revolutionized the process. All the convenience of ordering online (including the ability to repeat your last order) with none of
by subpixel 4y ago
Meanwhile, grocery pick-up has revolutionized the process. All the convenience of ordering online (including the ability to repeat your last order) with none of the expense of delivery to factor into the offering. Plus coupons!
I’ve been in a grocery store a handful of times in the last two years and it’s beyond aggravating how long it takes to find things, to roam around the store, and to deal with checkout.
It’s also interesting to see how often my parents “pop over” to the store for a single item. Not having that option (its a 2-hr trip now) has made me plan much better than I used to.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoProduct shortages have made grocery delivery/pickup a complete waste of time where I live. I did quite a few of them during the height of the Covid restrictions, and kept at it for a little while after they eased up. But for those serval months, I received the shopping list that I had ordered exactly 0 times. Which makes planning what to cook infinitely frustrating. The food shortages are still there when you go into the store yourself, but if you find some key ingredients missing you can at least pick some sensible combination of ingredients for alternative meals, instead of discovering after the fact that somebody at your local grocery store though radishes were a reasonable alternative to the sold-out spinach.
- subpixel 4y agoYeah, if you're cooking tonight something with critical ingredients I might not rely on the pickup for that, but they email me what is out so I'm not caught unaware. It's basically just like if I went to the store to get organic chickpeas and they didn't have them, except I know that _without going to the store_. Plus I just got two weeks of groceries so it's all good.
- ghaff 4y agoI haven't used grocery delivery in ages, but the one time I did because I was on crutches so doing a full grocery shopping was really awkward that was my issue: they didn't make reasonable substitutions, made unreasonable substitutions, or fresh goods didn't look great.
- bowsamic 4y agoWe have those issues with delivery in the UK but it’s not so much for these fast delivery services here in Germany: if it’s not in stock you can’t even order it, and the fresh stuff is actually pretty high quality (definitely past Lidl quality)